Trivia / How to Win Friends and Influence People

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Carnegie begins the book by describing the arrest and career of criminal Francis "Two Gun" Crowley, claiming that he thought he only defended himself from the police and was unfairly executed afterwards. Notably, he quotes a letter he left behind as "Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one — one that would do nobody any harm." Newspapers from the time actually quote his letter saying "When I die, put a lily in my hand, let the boys know how they'll look. Under my coat will lay a weary, kind heart that wouldn't hurt anything. I hadn't anything else to do, that's why I went around bumping off cops. It's the new sensations of the films..." Therefore, he was describing that he would have a kind heart and not hurt anybody because he would be dead.