Quotes 21 till 28 of 28.
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The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
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Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.
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Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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