Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragemen…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, p.147, Cambridge University Press
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