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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. Charles Babbage | top
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In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. Henry Bessemer | top
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce | top
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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 | top
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Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. George Boole | top
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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. Georg Brandes | top
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. Giacomo Casanova | top
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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 | top
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. Lord Chesterfield | top
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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 | top
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. George Eliot | top
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Thomas Chandler Haliburton | top
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. Edgar Watson Howe | top
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In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms. James Weldon Johnson | top
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. Franklin P. Jones | top
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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 | top
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. Edward Koch | top
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A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called. Maria Monk | top
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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. Albert J. Nock | top
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There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein. Gregory Peck | top
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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 | top
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. Arthur Schopenhauer | top
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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 | top
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. Logan P. Smith | top
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The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. Kenneth Williams | top
