Chapter 17 - The Secret of Power
"The great were once as you.
They whom men magnify today
Once groped and blundered on life's way
Were fearful of themselves, and thought
By magic was men's greatness wrought.
They feared to try what they could do;
Yet Fame hath crowned with her success
The selfsame gifts that you possess."
---Edgar A. Guest. *
There is a woman in one of the big Eastern cities whose husband died a year or two ago and left her nearly $100,000,000. She has unlimited power in her hands---yet she uses none of it. She has unlimited wealth---yet she gets no more from it
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