“No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.”

— Andrew Carnegie

Source: Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, 1920, Chapter XXIX

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“No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be­hind a king when I find him.”

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