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Moreover, such an attack is in itself an exceptionally crooked and ugly tribute to wealth, and therefore the proof of an exceptionally ugly and crooked state of mind in the man making the attack.
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Roosevelt critiques the mindset that attacks wealth, viewing it as a reflection of the attacker's own moral failings.
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