#quaint

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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.


Samuel Johnson


#adversity #becomes #been #considered #easily

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.


Samuel Johnson


#advances #alone #constant #does #find

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.


Franklin P. Jones


#criticism #friend #hard #honest #particularly

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.


Eli Whitney


#approbation #desire #itself #keep #must

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.


Akshay Kumar


#acquainted #became #become #each #family

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


Bertrand Russell


#must #name #particular #understand #which

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.


Marilyn vos Savant


#acquaintance #cite #dislike #every #good

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!


Wally Schirra


#across #ear #girl #her #looks

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#fortune #friends #passport #surest

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


#ends #everywhere #foreign #friends #having