Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens ple…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more, p.358, e-artnow
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