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As fine a figure as I can call to mind is that of one such country clergyman in a poor farming community not far from the capital of the State of New York—a vigorous old man, who works on his farm six days in the week, and on the seventh preaches what he himself has been practicing.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt recounts the admirable life of a hardworking country clergyman.

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