

“Four decades after Thomas Edison’s spectacular illumination of Lower Manhattan in 1882, electricity had done little to make the country’s factories more productive.”
― Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States
― Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States

“John Jacob Astor succeeded in amassing America’s biggest fortune by trading in the furs of beavers, otters, muskrats, and bears (though he wisely used some of the money he made from hunting in America’s great wilderness to buy real estate in Manhattan).”
― Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States
― Capitalism in America: An Economic History of the United States

“Let not Ambition mock their useful toil”
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

“Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.”
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.”
― An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
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