#quaint

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#acquainted #country #description #ever #knew

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

#after #book #could #expect #female

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#grew #i #quaint #up #village

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. ↗

— Lord Byron

#acting #am #delightful #good #good acting

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#bills #black #cling #cutting #fear

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#friend #hope #pleasant #unsafe

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#evident #expressed #god #laws #less

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. ↗

— Novalis

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