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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. -- Bierce, Ambrose | Acquaintance Send to friend | View Books by Bierce, Ambrose at Amazon.com | Books about Acquaintance at Amazon.com Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. -- Bierce, Ambrose | Acquaintance Send to friend | View Books by Bierce, Ambrose at Amazon.com | Books about Acquaintance at Amazon.com An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. -- Bierce, Ambrose | Acquaintance Send to friend | View Books by Bierce, Ambrose at Amazon.com | Books about Acquaintance at Amazon.com I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. -- Forster, Edward M. | Acquaintance Send to friend | View Books by Forster, Edward M. at Amazon.com | Books about Acquaintance at Amazon.com The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. -- Eliot, George | Acquaintance Send to friend | View Books by Eliot, George at Amazon.com | Books about Acquaintance at Amazon.com The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. -- Smith, Logan Pearsall | Acquaintance Send to friend | View Books by Smith, Logan Pearsall at Amazon.com | Books about Acquaintance at Amazon.com We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. -- Smith, Logan Pearsall | Acquaintance Send to friend | View Books by Smith, Logan Pearsall at Amazon.com | Books about Acquaintance at Amazon.com Quote: 1-7 of 7 Pages: 1 of 1 View all quotes