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10 quotesAcquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Acquaintance
Ambrose Bierce
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Acquaintance
Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance lessens fame.
Fame
Claudius
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Hope
Thomas C. Haliburton
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
Forgiveness
Edgar Watson Howe
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Friends and Friendship
Samuel Johnson
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Friends and Friendship
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
Acquaintance
Logan Pearsall Smith
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
Acquaintance
Logan Pearsall Smith
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun