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On David Hoffman and Jonathan Gordon’s 1969 'King, Murray'

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“The meek do not inherit the earth. The bold, the aggressive, a man of vision who wants to get somewhere—he inherits the earth, not the meek. The meek is satisfied with his meat and his morsel of bread.” Thus proclaims Murray Ramsey King, a merrily handsy 46-year-old life insurance salesman much too impatient to wait around for any inheritance, and the …

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