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Andrew Carnegie:Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Additional Excerpt 479

Andrew Carnegie《Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · Leadership

To this he demurred, being a modest man, but I was inexorable. No excuse would be taken; he must come to oblige me. He did. I sat between them at dinner and enjoyed this meeting of extremes. Mr. Arnold became deeply interested in Mr. Shaw's way of putting things and liked his Western anecdotes, laughing more heartily than I had ever seen him do before. One incident after another was told from the experience of the lecturer, for Mr. Shaw had lectured for fifteen years in every place of ten thousand inhabitants or more in the United States.

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