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Quotation from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie
“Colonel James Anderson--I bless his name as I write--announced that he would open his library of four hundred volumes to boys”
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Chapter IV (Project Gutenberg #17976 (Constable, 1920))
The Saturday lending library that shaped Carnegie's later gifts of libraries.
Citation: "Colonel James Anderson--I bless his name as I write--announced that he would open his library of four hundred volumes to boys" — Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Chapter IV (Project Gutenberg #17976 (Constable, 1920)). (id autobiography-of-andrew-carnegie-q4)
Virtues: Charity
Portrait: Andrew Carnegie, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing slightly left, 1913-crop, Theodore C. Marceau, Public domain.
