#acquire

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

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A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. ↗

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

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Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. ↗

— James J. Corbett

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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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