#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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The Importance of Death in the Life of Vanderbilt
As Vanderbilt lay at the bottom of the ditch unable to move one thought overwhelmed all others he was going to die so he narrowly survives they he dispatches a man a messenger to go get his own personal doctor and I'm just gonna include this part because I thought it was funny so the note of myself was LOL. As he lay there impatiently in that cottage over the next four weeks slowly healing the incident took on iconic significance for him. If I died in Jersey in 18 in 1833 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. He says the two great waves now crashed into one another the individual
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