# Quote — F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

> Several small boys were brought to see him, and he spent a stiff-jointed afternoon trying to work up an interest in tops and marbles—he even managed, quite accidentally, to break a kitchen window with a stone from a sling shot, a feat which secretly delighted his father.
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> Thereafter Benjamin contrived to break something everyday, but he did these things only because they were expected of him, and because he was by nature obliging.

- Author: [F.Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald.md)
- Book: [The Curious Case of Benjamin Button](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button.md)
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