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安德鲁·卡内基：安德鲁·卡内基自传·补录 229
安德鲁·卡内基《安德鲁·卡内基自传》· Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie · 领导
After closing with Mr. Morgan, I visited my native town, Dunfermline, and at that time made the town a gift of public baths. It is notable largely because it was the first considerable gift I had ever made. Long before that I had, at my Uncle Lauder's suggestion, sent a subscription to the fund for the Wallace Monument on Stirling Heights overlooking Bannockburn. It was not much, but I was then in the telegraph office and it was considerable out of a revenue of thirty dollars per month with family expenses staring us in the face. Mother did not grudge it; on the contrary, she was a very proud woman that her son's name was seen on the list of contributors, and her son felt he was really beginning to be something of a man. Years afterward my mother and I visited Stirling, and there unveiled, in the Wallace Tower, a bust of Sir Walter Scott, which she had presented to the monument committee. We had then made great progress, at least financially, since the early subscription. But distribution had not yet begun.[30] So far with me it had been the age of accumulation.
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定位：Additional excerpt 229 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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卡内基与摩根谈完生意后，回到故乡邓弗姆林，捐建了公共浴池。这之所以值得一说，是因为这是他第一笔像样的捐赠。更早时，在叔叔劳德建议下，他曾给斯特灵高地的华莱士纪念碑捐过一笔小钱。那时他还在电报局，月薪三十美元，家里开销都紧巴巴的，那点捐款其实不算少。母亲并不心疼，反而为儿子的名字出现在捐款名单上感到骄傲，儿子也觉得自己开始像个大人了。多年后，他和母亲重访斯特灵，为华莱士塔揭幕了母亲捐给纪念碑委员会的司各特半身像。那时他们经济上已大有起色，但真正开始散财，还远未到时候。到这一步，他的人生还处在积累阶段。
上下文
卡内基在自传中回忆早年捐款经历，当时他刚与摩根完成交易，事业正盛，但慈善尚未大规模展开。
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你第一次用自己的钱帮助别人是什么时候？那份心意后来怎样延续或改变了？
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