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The Rich Boy

The Rich Boy
F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Rich Boy" is a short story by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was included in his 1926 collection All the Sad Young Men.

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“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Rich Boy

"The Rich Boy" (1926), paragraph 3.
Often quoted as “The rich are different.”
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