• 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
  American writer 1837-1921
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. self-sacrifice
2. patience
3. currency
4. promises
5. service

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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. by : John Burroughs

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