#acquired

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#job #lose #power #their #wants

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. ↗

— Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

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Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. ↗

— Frances Rodman

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

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

#acquired taste #car #immediately #private #railroad

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

— Joseph Roux

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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

#additional #extremity #i #observe #only

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it. ↗

— William H. Seward

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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. ↗

— Avicenna

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