“We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
Manuscript, Sermons; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 350.
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