“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
Letter to Cecil Spring-Rice (12 March 1900)
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Roosevelt, Theodore. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Theodore Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
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