Chapter XXIX

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

— Andrew Carnegie

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man be­hind a king when I find him." in the context of "Chapter XXIX" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Andrew Carnegie

About Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 – 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, which later became U.S. Steel.