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No first-class science, no first-class literature or art, can ever be built up with second-class men.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “No first-class science, no first-class literature or art, can ever be built up with second-class men.”
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Roosevelt asserts that high-quality scholarship cannot be achieved without exceptional individuals.
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