Famous quotes containing the word earn:
“The beaux and the babies, the servant troubles, and the social aspirations of the other girls seemed to me superficial. My work did not. I was professional. I could earn my own money, or I could be fired if I were inefficient. It was something to get your teeth into. It was living.”
—Edna Woolman Chase (1877–1957)
““Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun....”
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate,
envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content
with my harm.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)