"Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil."
— Self-esteem

January 1, 1970

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Theodore Roosevelt, Civic Helpfulness, first published in the "Century", October, 1900. Published in The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1910)