#acquaint

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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

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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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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

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

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Meeting another human is always a sacred event. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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