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Teddy Roosevelt: “There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that…”

On the recordMay 11, 1903
There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at Leland Stanford Jr. University in Palo Alto, California

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