It was never safe to contest with him on any question of fact or figures, whether they relate to the ancient Assyrians or to the present-day conditions of the tribes of central Africa, to the Syracusan Expedition, as told by Thucydides, or to protective coloring in birds and animals.
Lodge asserts that Roosevelt was a formidable opponent in debates due to his vast knowledge of facts and figures.
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He was unfailingly attractive, because he was always perfectly natural and his own unconscious self.
So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.
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