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Alexandru Constantin's avatar

Well shit, now I have another book to read.

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David Roberts's avatar

This was intriguing so I ordered the book. And it made me think of that famous Fitzgerald quote about the rich (what I guessed may be in some way your "aristocrat")

"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."

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