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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
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I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
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It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.
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Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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No one should form an acquaintance with one who has an evil character. A piece of coal, if it is hot burns, and if it's cold, blackens the hands.
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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