The Gilded Age


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human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a  
whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar  
newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished  
speculator in lands and mines this remark:--"I wasn't worth a cent two  
years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars."  
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