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Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.
— Theodore Roosevelt, in "National Duties" an address at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul (2 September 1901), later in The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
