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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:“How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.” “The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.” “He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” Related Phrases
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