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NUMBER:10557
QUOTATION:I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
ATTRIBUTION:Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), U.S. industrialist, philanthropist. Inscription in album. Quoted in Burton J. Hendrick, Life of Andrew Carnegie, vol. 1, ch. 17 (1932).

See also Carnegie’s comment under “wealth.”
 
 
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