We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and althou…

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement. ✨ Lucy Maud Montgomery, Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) (1989). Anne of Green Gables, p.347, Scholastic Inc.
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