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Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

CHAPTER XV
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Peace and good-will attend her footsteps wherever her blessed influence extends.

In the rare instances demanding heroic action it is she who first realizes this and plays the part.
[Footnote 41: The reference is to the quotation from _The Tempest_ on page 214.] The Peace-Maker has never had a quarrel in all her life, not even with a schoolmate, and there does not live a soul upon the earth who has met her who has the slightest cause to complain of neglect.

Not that she does not welcome the best and gently avoid the undesirable--none is more fastidious than she--but neither rank, wealth, nor social position affects her one iota.

She is incapable of acting or speaking rudely; all is in perfect good taste.

Still, she never lowers the standard.


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