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Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection?

— Andrew Carnegie

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The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

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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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O Fortune, cruellest of heavenly powers,
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