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For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper

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"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service"

- John Burroughs

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This quote is written / told by John Burroughs between April 3, 1837 and March 29, 1921. He/she was a famous Author from USA. The author also have 28 other quotes.

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