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The only thing to do is to grin and bear it, to flinch as little as possible under the punishment, and to keep pegging steadily away until the luck turns.
Letters to His Children, 1906
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Roosevelt counseled his son Ted through hard stretches at school with the same gritty directness he applied to his own life—endure, don't complain, keep going.

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