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Earn

(verb) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. Example: "You can have the s'mores: you earned them, clearing the walkway of snow so well."

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"Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned."
— Thomas Sowell
"Most people with low self-esteem have earned it."
— George Carlin
"Don’t work to earn what is already yours."
— Caylor Parish
"The important thing in life is not how much one earns, but how much existence one does not waste."
— Kyrah Edwards
"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned."
— Benjamin Franklin
"It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest."
— John Muir
"A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion"
— George Washington
"I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."
— Thomas Sowell

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