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Teddy Roosevelt: “Envy is, of course, merely a kind of crooked admiration; and we often see the very man who in public is most intemperate…”

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Envy is, of course, merely a kind of crooked admiration; and we often see the very man who in public is most intemperate in his denunciation of wealth, in his private life most eager to obtain wealth, in no matter what fashion, and at no matter what moral cost.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt discusses the duality of public condemnation of wealth versus private desire for it.

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