Edmund Morris Quotes

[Theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That Their Need Was Not Unique: That He Was Not Yearning To Travel Two Thousand Miles On Bad Trains To Support The Reelection Campaign Of A County Sheriff, Or To Address The Congregation Of A New Chapel In A Landscape With No Trees. His Refusal, No Matter How Elaborately Apologetic, Was Received More Often In Puzzlement Than Anger. Imaginatively Challenged Folks, For Whom Crossing A State Line Amounted To Foreign Travel, Could Not Conceive That The Gray-blue Eyes Inspecting Them Had, Over The Past Year, Similarly Scrutinized Nandi Warriors, Arab Mullahs, Magyar Landowners, French Marshals, Prussian Academics, Or Practically Any Monarch Or Minister Of Consequence In Europe -- Not To Mention The Maquettes In Rodin's Studio, And Whatever Dark Truths Flickered In The Gaze Of Dying Lions.

From COLONEL ROOSEVELT, P. 104.

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

Edmund Morris Quotes: [theodore] Roosevelt Had Long Ago Discovered That The More Provincial The Supplicants, The Less Able Were They To Understand That

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