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If you have an ideal only good while you sit at home, an ideal that nobody can live up to in outside life, then I advise you strongly to take that ideal, examine it closely, and then cast it away.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “If you have an ideal only good while you sit at home, an ideal that nobody can live up to in outside life, then I advise…”
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Roosevelt advises examining and discarding impractical ideals that cannot be lived up to in real life.
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