It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned every…

Theodore Roosevelt
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It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone. ✨ Jacob Abbott, Flavius Vegetus Romanus, Duke of Wellington, John S. C. Abbott, Theodore Roosevelt (2016). Strategy Six Pack 2, p.298, Lulu.com
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