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You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided…”
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Roosevelt warns against the dangers of inefficiency and wickedness in life.
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