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March 11, 2024 |

From Wall Street and the Wilds, by A. W. Dimock, pages 142 and 145:

My own surplus money burned holes in my pocket and seldom has the proverb, "Easy come, easy go," received more apposite illustration. From promoting a church to buying a castle, from street railroads in Boston to Sea Islands in Carolina, my check book was always busy. Incidentally it was lavish when my sympathy was appealed to and for all such gifts I have nothing but scorn to-day, now that I know what real sympathy may mean and from behind the scenes have witnessed the hollow mockery of advertised philanthropy.

Thrice have I purchased or built costly edifices as residences for my family and myself and three times has fate stepped in and taken them for schools, wherefore I have come to look upon myself as an instrument of Providence designed for the promotion of education.

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