Clean living

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Hela  #196968  Wed, 15 Feb 06 07:58 AM

Dear teachers,

Would you please tell me what does "clean living" mean in this context?


"My father, Theodore Roosevelt, was the best man I ever knew. He combined strength and courage with gentleness, tenderness and great unselfishness. He would not tolerate in us, children, selfishness or cruelty, cowardice or untruthfulness. As we grew older, he made us understand that: the same standard of clean living was demanded for the boys as for the girls; that what was wrong in a woman could not be right in a man."

Many thanks,
Hela

  
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nona the brit  #196976  Wed, 15 Feb 06 08:15 AM
Clean living - with high morals.
  
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The name says it all.
Hela  #197151  Wed, 15 Feb 06 05:57 PM
Thanks Nona, it confirms my thoughts. Wink [;)]
  
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