Amy Greymore
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77 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
Amy Greymore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I let it go.
The whole Canadian Pacific Railway, they said, was thrown on the market for fifteen millions.
I left it there writhing, and didn't pick it up.
Sheer lack of confidence.
I see now why these men get rich.
It's their fine, glorious confidence that enables them to write out a cheque for fifty million dollars and think nothing of it.
If I wrote a check like that, I'd be afraid of going to Sing Sing.
But they aren't, and so they get what they deserve.
Forty five years ago a man at the club told me this, with almost a sob in his voice that
Either Rockefeller or Carnegie could have been bought clean up for a thousand dollars.
Think of it.
Why didn't my father buy them for me as pets for my birthday, and let me keep them till I grew up?
If I had had my life over again.
No school or education for me.
Not with all this beautiful mud and these tar paper shacks and corner lot fruit stores lying around.
I'd buy out the whole United States and take a chance, a sporting chance, on the rise in values.
End of Chapter four
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