acquaintance

quote: From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.

quote: 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.

quote: Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

quote: Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

quote: Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never thought upon.

quote: Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?

quote: Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

quote: FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.

quote: Acquaintance without patience is like a candle with no light.

quote: Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

quote: Acquaintance: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

quote: It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

quote: A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. See our article: Forgiveness - A Real Stress Buster -Ed Howe.

quote: A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

quote: Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

quote: I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

quote: Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

quote: Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

quote: Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

quote: 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.

quote: Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

quote: The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

quote: Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

quote: When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

quote: The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

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