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Teddy Roosevelt: “Nothing can add more to our capacity for healthy social enjoyment than, by force of example no less than by precept, to…”

On the recordJune 14, 1903
Nothing can add more to our capacity for healthy social enjoyment than, by force of example no less than by precept, to encourage the formation of societies which by their cultivation of music, vocal and instrumental, give great lift to the artistic side, the æsthetic side of our nature; and especially is that true when we remember that no man is going to go very far wrong if he belongs to a society where he can take his wife with him to enjoy it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Saengerfest in Baltimore, Maryland

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