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slash Christmas.

Only a year before he had been at the pinnacle of power in the American presidency, the

centre of authority and of attention.

Now on Saturday, April 23, 1910, theatre Roosevelt rose in the grand amphitheater of the University

of Paris in the Latin Quarter, popularly known as the Sorbonne.

The former president was on a 15-month world tour that would include his acceptance of

a Nobel Prize and safaris in Africa.

In Paris, he spoke perhaps his most celebrated and off-quoted words.

It is not the critic who counts.

Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could

have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marked by dust,

sweat and blood, whose stripes valiantly, whose heirs, who come short to gain it again,

because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive

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