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For one thing, Vanderbilt became an ardent admirer of the young doctor. You saved my life, he would often tell him. “If I had died in Jersey in 1833,” he would add, decades later, “the world would not have known that I had lived. But I think I have been spared to accomplish a great work that will last and remain.”
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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