Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well, who counts the deed itself as his reward.

Context

Remarks at the Banquet at Sherry's in Honor of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University in New York...

04/18/1902

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