#acquired

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

— Pliny the Elder

#generally #good #good reputation #lose #more

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

— Frances Rodman

#acquired #florist #grocer #had #matrimony

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

#corruption #done #government #government officials #i

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

#arbitrary #arbitrary power #domain #hold #indeed

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

— Sara Teasdale

#investigation #result #save #wisdom

Reality is an acquired taste. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#acquired taste #reality #taste

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. ↗

— Isaac Hanson

#album #because #enjoyed #i #knowledge