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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Quote by Jane Austen about beauty, life

Weston Anderson was on his way to invent Fourier transform spectroscopy in order to improve the sensitivity of NMR by parallel data acquisition.

Quote by Richard Ernst about order

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

Quote by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse about succes, wealth, character

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.

Quote by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon about mind, meditation, experience, human imperfections, nothing