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Teddy Roosevelt: “Good manners should be an international no less than an individual attribute.”

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Good manners should be an international no less than an individual attribute.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that good manners should be a universal attribute, not just an individual one.

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