The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.