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Quotation from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie
“I was lifted into paradise, yes, heaven, as it seemed to me, with newspapers, pens, pencils, and sunshine about me.”
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg #17976 (Constable, 1920))
On leaving the dark boiler cellar to become a telegraph messenger in Pittsburgh in 1850.
Citation: "I was lifted into paradise, yes, heaven, as it seemed to me, with newspapers, pens, pencils, and sunshine about me." — Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Chapter III (Project Gutenberg #17976 (Constable, 1920)). (id autobiography-of-andrew-carnegie-q3)
Portrait: Andrew Carnegie, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, 1913-crop, Theodore C. Marceau, Public domain.
