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#quain

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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.


Elbert Hubbard


#been #intimately #optimist #person #pessimist

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.


Ambrose Bierce


#acquaintance #already #embraced #enables #folly

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.


Charles Bronson


#children #figured #friends #had #i

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


#acquainted #country #description #ever #knew

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.


George Catlin


#always #appearance #been #civil #crows

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.


Richard Cecil


#acquiesced #all things #bible #characters #god

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.


Lydia M. Child


#after #book #could #expect #female

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.


Charles Caleb Colton


#companion #even #genius #inseparable #moderation

I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village.


Kirsty Gallacher


#grew #i #quaint #up #village

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#before #etc #just #libraries #new






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