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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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

— Frances Rodman

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The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. ↗

— Elihu Root

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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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It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! ↗

— Derek Jacobi

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False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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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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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ↗

— Claude Bernard

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At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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