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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.
-- 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''
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
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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
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
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
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