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"Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them." »Lord Chesterfield
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"If thou lackest knowledge, what hast thou then acquired? Hast thou acquired knowledge, what else dost thou want?" »The Talmud
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"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired." »Venezuelan Proverb
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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." »Franklin P. Adams
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." »Albert Einstein
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"Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels." »Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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"He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed." »Saadi, On the Duties of Society
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"If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." »Frank Gelett Burgess
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"Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion." »The Hitopadesa
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"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." »Plato
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"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." »Plato, The Republic
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"Knowledge acquired by a man of low degree places him on a level with a prince, as a small river attains the irremeable ocean; and his fortune is then exalted." »The Hitopadesa
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"We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better." »Native American
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""I don't for hunger, I eat for taste"" »Antonio Villarrubia
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""I don't eat for hunger, I eat for taste"" »Antonio Villarrubia
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""I don't eat for hunger, I eat for taste"" »Antonio Villarrubia
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud." »Confucius
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"It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose." »Boris Pasternak
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"There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste." »Steve Jobs
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"Good taste is always an asset." »Rudy Bakalov
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"Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired." »The Hitopadesa
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"We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." »Seneca
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"Good taste is the enemy of creativity" »Pablo Picasso
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"A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika." »Dorothy Parker
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"Most turkeys taste better the day after my mother's tasted better the day before." »Rita Rudner
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"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts." »Siddha Nagarjuna
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"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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