“The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.”
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
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“Live your life in every way to earn and keep the respect of the people you respect.”
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Book I, ch. 1.
The Japanese Family Storehouse (1688)
“I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.”
The Brass Ring (1971)
“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”
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General Quotes
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
Variant translation: It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books II-VI, II
Source: Confessions
“You can not buy health, you must earn it through healthy living.”
From the homepage of his official website DrFuhrman.com https://web.archive.org/web/20170831072629/https://www.drfuhrman.com/ (August 2017).