He had learned the lesson late, at the cost of nearly his whole life.

But he had learned it, and he had built a three-hundred-million-dollar monument to it, and he had handed that monument to the two people who had taught it to him without ever meaning to.

Not everyone gets to learn the most important thing before they die.

Arthur did.

And he made sure it would go on being true long after he was gone.

Chapter 21 — Peacefully, in His Sleep