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Teddy Roosevelt: “The professional and mercantile avenues to success are overcrowded; for the present the best chance of success awaits…”

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The professional and mercantile avenues to success are overcrowded; for the present the best chance of success awaits the intelligent worker at some mechanical trade or on a farm; for this man will almost certainly achieve industrial independence.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt advises that practical trades offer better opportunities for success than overcrowded professional fields.

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