"The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society; but only if they know when to stop raking the much, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them, to the crown of worthy endeavor. There are beautiful things above and round about them; and if they gradually grow to feel the whole world is nothing but much, their power of usefulness is gone."
– Theodore Roosevelt, Speech to the Gridiron Club, Washington, 17 March 1906
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