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By Theodore Roosevelt
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
- Source
- Citizenship in a Republic (address at the Sorbonne, Paris), April 23, 1910 · African and European Addresses, 1910, p. 39
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- Internet Archive (Smithsonian Libraries scan of African and European Addresses, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910)
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From "Citizenship in a Republic," the address Roosevelt gave at the Sorbonne in Paris on April 23, 1910, as printed in African and European Addresses (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910).