Sir James Carnegie

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    Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
    That few but such as cannot write, translate.
    John, Sir Denham (1615–1669)

    It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    We accept and welcome ... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.
    —Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)