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Thirty years earlier, John Adams had expressed other reservations. “With all the opulence and splendor of this city, there is very little good breeding to be found,” he had noted in his diary. “They talk very loud, very fast, and all together. If they ask you a question, before you can utter three words of your answer, they will break out upon you again, and talk away.” These habits would never really change.
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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