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Thursday, February 02, 2023
Barbarian Virtues
Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Granville Stanley Hall (November 29, 1899):
Oversentimentality, oversoftness, in fact, washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.