• Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

  Pietro Metastasio
  Italian poet and librettist 1698-1782
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. acquisition
2. encounter
3. expect
4. obtain
5. other

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. by : Pietro Metastasio

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