"People have prejudices against a nation in which……" — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
"People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances."
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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16 Quotes by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Philip Gilbert Hamerton has 16 quotes on this site.
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The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a…
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We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when…
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A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and…
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Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
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The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.
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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water…
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You may have a cat in the room with you without anxiety about anything except eatables. The presence of a…
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All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of…
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The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to…
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More Acquaintance Quotes
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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