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Calvin Coolidge: Men find their true satisfaction in something higher, finer, nobler than all that.

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Men find their true satisfaction in something higher, finer, nobler than all that.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge asserts that true fulfillment comes from higher ideals rather than material possessions.

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