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Quotations regarding 'Acquaintance'

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U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.
Christiane Amanpour, English Journalist (1958-  )
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
Charles Babbage, English Mathematician (1792-1871)
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.
Henry Bessemer, English Scientist (1813-1898)
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
Jello Biafra, American Musician (1958-  )
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
George Boole, Irish Mathematician (1815-1864)
Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
Belle Boyd, American Celebrity (1844-1900)
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
Fanny Burney, English Novelist (1752-1840)
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, American Artist
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman (1694-  )
Acquaintance lessens fame.
Claudius, Roman Leader
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
William Dunbar, Scottish Poet
The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot, British Author (1819-1880)
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, Scottish Novelist (1859-1932)
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author (1796-1865)
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
Edgar Watson Howe, American Editor (1853-1937)
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.
James Weldon Johnson, American Poet (1871-1938)
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