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«How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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«No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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acquirement, acquirements, article, article of faith, disillusion, disintegrate, disintegrated, disintegrates, disintegrating, increasing
«Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Ethics
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