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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes: There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.
         

There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.


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There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.
         



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