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Quotation from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
“I was a sickly, delicate boy, suffered much from asthma, and frequently had to be taken away on trips to find a place where I could breathe.”
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter I, Boyhood and Youth (Project Gutenberg #3335 (1920 Scribner edition of the 1913 text))
He recalls his father carrying him up and down at night during attacks of asthma.
Citation: "I was a sickly, delicate boy, suffered much from asthma, and frequently had to be taken away on trips to find a place where I could breathe." — Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter I, Boyhood and Youth (Project Gutenberg #3335 (1920 Scribner edition of the 1913 text)). (id theodore-roosevelt-an-autobiography-q2)
Portrait: Theodore Roosevelt by the Pach Bros, Pach Brothers; restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
