The Gilded Age,Part 4
By Charles Dudley Warner
24 Oct, 2019
Brief Extract: There are some ways of doing a thing that is as good as others which other people don't happen to think about, or don't have the knack of succeeding in if they do happen to think of them. My dear sir, I am obliged to knock some of your
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Brief Extract: There are some ways of doing a thing that is as good as others which other people don't happen to think about, or don't have the knack of succeeding in if they do happen to think of them. My dear sir, I am obliged to knock some of your expenses in the head—for never a cent was paid a Congressman or Senator on the part of this Navigation Company." Less