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• Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously…
• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of…
• Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is…
• Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty…
• Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
• A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the…
• My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark…
• The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically…

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