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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

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.


Jay Weatherill


#civility #notion #parliament #perhaps #quaint

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


#accounts #acquaintance #badger #everybody #felt

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


Elbert Hubbard


#been #intimately #optimist #person #pessimist

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 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

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