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Teddy Roosevelt: So that if you go into life to do anything, it is perfectly useless for me to tell you to get rid of snobbery, because…

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So that if you go into life to do anything, it is perfectly useless for me to tell you to get rid of snobbery, because you will have to.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He asserts that in order to succeed in life, one must abandon snobbery and embrace equality.

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