Labor Quote by Joseph Addison

“There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.”

Joseph Addison

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T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

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