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...Even as George Eliot’s cottage-dwelling Silas Marner of 1861 found a dead body in the snow and the new life of a baby at his hearth while his village of Raveloe celebrated Christmas, Charles Dickens redefined...
...and Charles Erhart, who founded Pfizer, the world’s biggest drugmaker by sales, with a $2,500 loan in 1849....
...Eliot’s most trenchant parable on money is Silas Marner. Marner is a miser who keeps the golden guineas he earns by his honest labour under his floorboards....
...It was the beauty of the photographs taken by Charles Sainsbury-Plaice (Charlotte’s husband) that stopped me in my tracks....
...During the conflict that lasted from 1990 to 2003, illegal logging helped former president – and now indicted war criminal – Charles Taylor, to stay in power....
...“The companies did not have the financial means to embark on and implement those contracts,” says Silas Kpanan’ Ayoung Siakor at the Sustainable Development Institute....
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