Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world!
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Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States, 1901–1909; Governor of New York 1899–1900; Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897–1898
United States · 1858–1919
Politics and public life
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Served as President of the United States from 1901 to 1909, having become President on the assassination of William McKinley. Previously Governor of New York and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for mediating the end of the Russo-Japanese War, and ran unsuccessfully as the Progressive Party candidate in 1912.
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