Brewer's: Get

(To). To gain; to procure; to obtain.

Get wealth and place, if possible with grace: If not, by any means get wealth and place.

Horace (Satires says: “Rem facis, recte si possis; si non, rem facis.)”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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