History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 3 Sage's recusant quality classified him as quite distinc tive among the very rich men Of his time. NO self indulgence for him, no extravagance, no expensive hob bies or splurges. He was a man who displeased his class and violated its canons, to such it seemed that he made wealth odious to the masses by declining to invest it with that generosity which, it was supposed, softened the popular hostility to the system allowing its accumula tion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.