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QUENTIN'S QUAINT SAYINGS Oyster Bay, N. QUINTON'S QUAINT SAYINGS OYSTER BAY N
ped. With infinite labor and by the exercise of a good deal of tact and judgment--if I do say it myself--I have finally gotten the Japanese and Russians to agree to meet to discuss the terms of peace. Whether they will be able to come to an agreement or not I can't say. But it is worth while to have obtained the chance of peace, and the only possible way to get this chance was to secure such an agreement of the two powers that they would meet and discuss the terms direct. Of course Japan will want to ask more than she ought to ask, and Russia to give less than she ought to give. Perhaps both sides will prove impracticable. Perhaps one will. But there is the chance that they will prove sensible, and make a peace, which will really be for the interest of each as things are now. At any rate the experiment was worth trying. I have kept the secret very successfully, and my dealings with the Japanese in particular have been known to no one, so that the result is in the nature of a surprise.   SECTION THIRTY FIVE OF LETTERS TO HIS CHILDREN BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT THIS LIBERVOX RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN READ BY MARK HISSONG 
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