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I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!


Nadia Giosia


#addicted #beautiful #beautiful clothes #car #clothes

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.


Delphine de Girardin


#cannot #either #good #good taste #imitated

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.


Niccolo Machiavelli


#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.


David Wilmot


#any #congress #exclude #future #mexico

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.


Alva Myrdal


#kind #legitimacy #preparations #war

I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.


Sigrid Undset


#already #anxious #aware #because #days

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.


Thomas Paine


#efforts #encourage #endeavor #others #own

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.


John Pearson


#birth #carry #common #death #die

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.


Plato


#compulsion #hold #knowledge #mind #obtains

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.


Plautus


#age #capacity #wisdom






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