Variant: One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.
Source: Brave New World
“However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.”
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 80.
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