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Teddy Roosevelt: “The worst thing that you can do for a child is to bring him or her up so as to dodge difficulties.”

On the recordOctober 18, 1905
The worst thing that you can do for a child is to bring him or her up so as to dodge difficulties.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Greensboro, North Carolina

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