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A certain type of rather thinly intellectual man sneers at these moralities as “commonplaces;” and base and evil men, selfish and shortsighted men, are immensely pleased to see them denounced and derided.
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Roosevelt critiques those who dismiss moral values as trivial, noting that such attitudes benefit selfish individuals.
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