The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTThere is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
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No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
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The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.
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Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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