Family
Both of his parents were very wealthy by inheritance. His mother inherited money from Shropshire and his father from North Ireland. It is said Betty’s father would frivolously spend his inheritance on anything, resulting in his losing a large portion of it. This loss might be a huge contribution to the extreme exploitation of his child prodigy.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to build, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the site’s most attractive feature. They liked so much to visualize themselves as always there, that when they finally built they put the house on the knoll. But then the knoll was gone. Somehow they had not realized they would destroy it and lose it by supplanting it with themselves.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold.”
—Chinese proverb.