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By Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
- Source
- The Strenuous Life (speech to the Hamilton Club, Chicago), April 10, 1899 · The Strenuous Life, 1903 edition, p. 2
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- Internet Archive (University of North Carolina scan of The Strenuous Life, London: Grant Richards, 1903)
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From Roosevelt's speech to the Hamilton Club in Chicago, April 10, 1899, as printed in the 1903 Grant Richards edition of The Strenuous Life.