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Evalyn Walsh McLean

Evalyn Walsh McLean (August 1, 1886 – April 26, 1947) was an American mining heiress and socialite who was famous for being the last private owner of the 45-carat (9.0 g) Hope Diamond (which was bought in 1911 for $180,000 from Pierre Cartier), as well as another famous diamond, the 94-carat (18.8 g) Star of the East. She also authored the memoir Father Struck It Rich together with Boyden Sparkes.

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Confidence, to my way of thinking, generally is all the magic needed to work miracles.

Confidence, Generally, Miracle, Thinking, Way, Work

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

Genius, Love, Mad, Race, Touched

[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off. ' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at its middle. God-awful things were hiding underneath my bed, and it was no use telling me they were not there - I knew they were, and felt their dreadful ever-changing shapes.

Addiction, Bed, Hiding, Middle, Pain

It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and expect any in return, and you will be happy and contented.

Give, Kindness, People, Real, Thing, Worry

a lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.

Attend, Lady, Might, Parties, Party, Want

The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?

Amusing, Next, Problem, Question, Shapes

Power is a test - the test - of character.

Character, Power, Test, Tests

Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.

Children, Energy, Money, New York, Take, Though

I was becoming more cunning than an animal in hiding my supply of morphine. A squirrel saving nuts is limited by its undeveloped imagination. . . but I was not so handicapped. A squirrel, for example, is debarred from sending money to some greedy doctor or druggist and making arrangements to have a bit of powder sent each day by mail.

Animal, Doctors, Example, Limited, Squirrel, Squirrels

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