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Labor Day Address Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt: Context & Meanings

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“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

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Work is valuable not merely because it is difficult, but because the difficulty is attached to something judged worth doing.

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Speech at Syracuse, New York, September 7, 1903.