The richest person in the world - in fact, all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot availab… - Malcolm Forbes

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The richest person in the world - in fact, all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available in your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be. Our libraries are being eroded alarmingly by inflation. It behooves us - all of us - to stop the rot by the application of that prime preserver - money.

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About Malcolm Forbes

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (19 August 1919 – 24 February 1990) was an American businessman, and the publisher of Forbes magazine.

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Alternative Names: Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Malcolm S. Forbes Steve Forbes
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