"The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings."
— Theodore Roosevelt

January 1, 1970

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How Not To Better Social Conditions" in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39 · Full text online (with at least two typos — in the last sentence of the article) as "How Not To Help Our Poor Brother