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Letter "A" » acquaintance
«A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
(Editor, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Acquaintance,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
acquaintance, nodded, nodding, nods
«Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.»
Author: Matthew Hale
| Keywords:
accustom, acquaintance, estate, estate for life, expenses, hereby, rank, undoing, whereby
«Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Trust
| Keywords:
acquaintance, distrust, distrusted, distrusts, extremely, slight, slights, visible
«Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, depend, depend on, depth, length, lengths
«But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.»
«For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: / But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.»
«EXPERIENCE, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.To one who, journeying through night and fog, Is mired neck-deep in an unwholesome bog, Experience, like the rising of the dawn, Reveals the path that he should not have gone. --Joel Frad Bink»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, bog, bogged, bogs, embraced, fog, Joel, journeying, mired, most undesirable, The Rising, undesirable, unwholesome
«A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Action,
Friends
| Keywords:
acquaintance, convince, criterion, slender
«A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Acquaintance,
Action,
Friendship
| Keywords:
acquaintance, convince, criterion, good will, Marks, professions, slender, surest
«Have but few friends though much acquaintance»
Author: Proverb
| Keywords:
acquaintance
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