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[S]urplus wealth should be considered as a sacred trust, to be administered during the lives of its owners, by them as trustees, for the good of the community in which and from which it had been acquired.

— Andrew Carnegie

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The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

"All is well since all grows better” became my motto, my true source of comfort.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

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No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.

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