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Acquired Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have…
- To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and…
- Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow…
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited… — Smedley Butler
- .. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist… — Michel de Montaigne
- The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment,… — Edward Weston
- We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera
- I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on… — Franklin P. Adams
- The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is… — H. Rap Brown
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt