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Address to the Boys Progressive League
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. A speech by Roosevelt as a former President Read more about this topic: Theodore Roosevelt Famous quotes containing the word writer:“The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.” “The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.” “In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.” Related Phrases
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