My grandfather retired from active business on the eve of that great financial epoch, to grapple with which his talents were well adapted; and when the wars and loans of the Revolution were about to create those families of millionaires, in which he might probably have enrolled his own. That, however, was not our destiny. My grandfather had only one child, and nature had disqualified him, from his cradle, for the busy pursuits of men.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "My grandfather retired from active business on the eve of that great financial epoch, to grapple with which his talents were well adapted; and when the wars and loans of the Revolution were about to create those families of millionaires, in which he might probably have enrolled his own. That, however, was not our destiny. My grandfather had only one child, and nature had disqualified him, from his cradle, for the busy pursuits of men." in the context of "Benjamin Disraeli, "On the Life and Writings of Mr. Disraeli by his Son" an introduction to Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature (1866) Vol. 1, p. xi." to mean that wisdom is timeless.