"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.“

-Theodore Roosevelt

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"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."

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"When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all."

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"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."

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"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

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"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."

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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

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