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On the recordOctober 25, 1907
Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted; and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them, nor yet if we hide them in a napkin; for they must be fruitful in our hands.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Proclamation 776—Thanksgiving Day, 1907

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