"If he has not the right spirit, the spirit which makes him scorn self-indulgence, timidity, and mere ease, that is if he has not the spirit which normally stands at the base of physical hardihood, physical prowess, then that boy does not amount to much, and he is ordinarily going."
— Indulgence

January 1, 1970

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Theodore Roosevelt in: Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v, Review of Reviews Publishing Company, 1910, p. 12.