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, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) American writer [Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald]

“The Rich Boy,” Part 1, Red Book (1926-01/02)
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Reprinted in All the Sad Young Men (1926). Sometimes incorrectly cited to The Great Gatsby (1925).