#acquaint

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#about #acquainted #extraordinary #forget #them

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#contradiction #humor #humor

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

#appeared #company #dying #intimately #irishmen

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#first #know #must #order #ourselves

The city's full of people who you just see around. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#cities #strangers #men

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. ↗

— John James Audubon

#becoming #desirous #fervently #grew #i

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

#any #attraction #benefited #completely #duties

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#becomes #business #capital #deliberately #fortune

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#assured #columbia #connection #had #me

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#anybody #feel #guess #having #i