THE VEGETABLE
or
from President to postman
By
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
“Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable.”
—From a Current Magazine.
Copyright, 1923, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
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Printed in the United States of America
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Published April, 1923
TO KATHERINE TIGHE and EDMUND WILSON, Jr.
WHO DELETED MANY ABSURDITIES
FROM MY FIRST TWO NOVELS I RECOMMEND
THE ABSURDITIES SET DOWN HERE
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