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It is eminently worth while to try to prevent those boys becoming criminals, to try to prevent their being menaces to and expenses and sores in society, while there is a chance of reforming them.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “It is eminently worth while to try to prevent those boys becoming criminals, to try to prevent their being menaces to…”
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Roosevelt argues for the importance of preventing youth from becoming criminals to benefit society.
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