There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in r…

Theodore Roosevelt
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. ✨ Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children, p.146, Applewood Books
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