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#acquaintance

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The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly. ↗


— George Catlin


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I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book. ↗


— Lydia M. Child


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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. ↗


— Elihu Root


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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ↗


— Franklin P. Jones


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Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike. ↗


— Marilyn vos Savant


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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous! ↗


— Wally Schirra


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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. ↗


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. ↗


— Lucius Annaeus Seneca


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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. ↗


— Laurence Sterne


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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. ↗


— William Powell


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