"Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance……" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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• Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our… — George Ade
• There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra… — Jello Biafra
• The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce
• Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. — Ambrose Bierce
• Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already… — Ambrose Bierce
• I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it… — Ambrose Bierce
• I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. — Charles Bronson
• 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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