Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

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Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader. When people have money, they often have time to spend on themselves, but they often do not have time to read. In fact, many of the most wealthy people in the world are not readers at all. They tend to surround themselves with people who are more interested in what they do than what they read.

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