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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#borrow #enough #know #lend #person

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#deny #his #home #indian #people

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. ↗

— John Wooden

#admirers #adversity #becomes #being #easily

The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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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

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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

#am #any #constantly #difficult #easy

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

#aesthetic #begin #enough #estimate #gets

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#being #business #buy #colleagues #friends