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Teddy Roosevelt: “If the community be poor and hard-working, he shares the poverty and works as hard as any one.”

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If the community be poor and hard-working, he shares the poverty and works as hard as any one.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt illustrates the shared struggles of a poor community and its minister.

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