#acquired

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

— David Wilmot

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True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#bought #cabinet #few #knowledge #land

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

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

— Plato

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

#age #capacity #wisdom

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

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

#comforts #days #difficult #edge #hard

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

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

— Joseph Roux

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