#acquaint

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#history #most #nations #powerful #republics

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

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

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

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

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ↗

— Virgil

#help #i #learn #misfortune #myself

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#ignorance #own #your #yourself

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

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

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. ↗

— George Eliot

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