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...letter accompanying the circular was the following paragraph: ". . . Barton's two books interest and aid the rich and powerful; they help any cub salesman to get orders for shoe polish???and to work on principles that lead him toward riches and power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riches & Power | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...five years later, in 1889, that he began to write. With the choice of several languages ? French, German, Russian, Polish???he elected to write in English, which he preferred as a medium of expression. It was four years later still before he showed his manuscript to anyone. On a voyage to Australia aboard the Torrens, he had, as passenger, a Cambridge man. Conrad asked him: "Would it bore you very much reading a manuscript in a handwriting like mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korzeniowski | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

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