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| Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; ACQUAINTANCEs, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness. | Henrik Ibsen | 1828-1906, Norwegian Dramatist |
| ACQUAINTANCE: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| ACQUAINTANCE. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| An ACQUAINTANCE is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old ACQUAINTANCE the folly that we have already embraced. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Friends and ACQUAINTANCEs are the surest passport to fortune. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| 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. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding ACQUAINTANCE. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| She is such a good friend that she would throw all her ACQUAINTANCEs into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. | Charles Maurice De Talleyrand | 1754-1838, French Statesman |
| A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of ACQUAINTANCEs in the world; but very few real friends. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
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| A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding ACQUAINTANCE with a man. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
| I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| 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. | Fanny Burney | 1752-1840, British Writer, Diarist |
| Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an ACQUAINTANCE, or a stranger. | Franklin P. Jones | |
| The beginning of an ACQUAINTANCE whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| A slender ACQUAINTANCE with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. | George Washington | 1732-1799, First President of the USA |
| When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her ACQUAINTANCE for the inattention of just one. | Helen Rowland | 1875-1950, American Journalist |
| 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. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| 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. | Hitopadesa | 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantra |
| The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest ACQUAINTANCE seem a bosom friend. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
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| We need two kinds of ACQUAINTANCEs, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| 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. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| An ACQUAINTANCE that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your ACQUAINTANCEs will know you in a thousand years. | Richard Bach | 1936-, American Author |
| I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new ACQUAINTANCE. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| If a man does not make new ACQUAINTANCEs as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| 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. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | 1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes'' |
| In addition to my other numerous ACQUAINTANCEs, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love. | Soren Kierkegaard | 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer |
| I am my neighbour's Bible: he reads me when we meet, today he reads me in my house, tomorrow in the street; he may be relative or friend, or slight ACQUAINTANCE be; he may not even know my name, yet he is reading me. | Source Unknown | |
| Hope is a pleasant ACQUAINTANCE, but an unsafe friend. | Thomas C. Haliburton | 1796-1865, Canadian Jurist, Author |
