We have glimpsed in it the future of high society: wealth without class.

Our era has produced many great men--- robber barons, masters of innovation, beast of business---whose staggering wealth, incomparable ruthlessness and personal legends would seem to prove they are dominant species but then one has a look at their son, and doubts the theory of evolution entirely.

-DR. Bertrand Legmam Cooper,
Problems of Science and Society,
Posted by One Who Has Known Both, 1900

Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.

Les riches , comme les pauvres au moment de leur mort n'emporte avec eux qu'un drap blanc. La difference reside dans les funerailles , les funerailles d'un riche ne manque pas de gens,au contraire . Elles manquent de gens qui le regrettent . Les funerailles d'un pauvre comporte peux de gens, des gens qu'ils l'aiment. La vraie richesse reside dans la qualite des gens qui nous entourent mais non dans leur quantité. William Rihani

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

It had been an awful thing to lose Henry the first time, to matrimony, but to discover what a false front he was capable of was another kind of blow, and it had left her almost speechless. Then there was the fury with herself—for she had known what Henry’s love was, and still she had gone back to suffer a little more at his hands.