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41 " They settled in Van Buren County, near the Missouri border and the Des Moines River village of Bentonsport. The youngest child, Anna Belle, was only six months old. In Iowa, three-year-old George died of whooping cough, and the last child, Effie Ellen, was born. Known as Ella, she was the grandmother of co-author Paul Newell. "
― Bill Dedman , Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
42 " Sympathy, the great bond between human beings, is largely dependent on imagination—that is, upon the power of realizing the feelings and the circumstances of others so as to enable us to feel with and for them. "
43 " cultivate imagination, which means to develop your power of sympathy, and I entreat you to decide thoughtfully what makes a human being great in his time and in his station. The "
44 " The faculty of imagination is often lightly spoken of as of no real importance, often decried as mischievous, as in some ways the antithesis of practical sense, and yet it ranks with reason and conscience as one of the supreme characteristics by which man is distinguished from "
45 " He never touched a dollar except twenty came back in its place. "
46 " Huguette had a fairy-tale checkbook, one that was refilled whenever it ran out of magic beans. "
47 " W.A. MOVED from rich to superrich after representing Montana at the 1885 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in New Orleans. "
48 " Huguette was a formidable personality who lived life as she wanted, always on her own terms. In her own way, she found what life may be, a life of integrity. "
49 " I never bought a man who wasn’t for sale. "
50 " When she had been told that a baby sister was due, Andrée said to her mother, “Let me think it over. "
51 " White Star liner. The Clarks were booked for passage from New York to Ireland to Cherbourg. This crossing would be a treat, the second voyage of the largest ship afloat: the RMS Titanic. "
52 " To live happily, live hidden. "