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.
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John Burroughs Quote
“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.”
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