Excerpt from RooseveltianaOctober, 1902. So Tom Reed is dead! What a ¿are he had for genius. He said I was America's greatest living thinker. As regards bulk, Tom would have filled the Presidential chair better than I do, but as my vice-president it would have been Mrs. Jellyby's ideal union of mind and matter.December, 1902. Have written a preface for a book. Am tired of being compared with the German Emperor. Prefer Augustus of Saxony, named by Carlyle the physically strong, and yet he was father of only 178 children.Aux calendes Grecques. Have a pain in my face. But doctor tells me that every human cheek has six muscles, now dormant, but which once served to wag the ears, and that excessive verbosity irritates these muscles and causes suffering for everybody.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.