Some literary themes really are timeless.
“The Rich Boy”, 1926:
“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. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.”
WTKK radio interview, 2012:
“Listen, he’s in a category, a lot of those folks are in categories that we don’t really understand,” Brown said on the “Jim and Margery” talk-radio show this morning. “And certainly [Romney] has to release his [tax] returns. I understand he’s going to do that like everybody else when they become ready and available in April. I don’t know anything [about] his finances. I really — it’s kind of a different world for me.”
(Although maybe he’s lost a step in the eloquence department.)