Historical clue formulations

• Get something through hard work — 2024-11-23
• Acquire something through hard work — 2024-09-29
• Achieve one's due honestly — 2023-05-27
• Achieve something by merit — 2019-01-27
• The only way to get respect, so they say — 2018-08-12
• Deserve something through hard work — 2018-04-13
• How to make money "the old-fashioned way" — 2015-03-15
• How to make money "the old-fashioned way" — 2013-12-17