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"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."
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"A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called."
"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."
"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."
"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."
"There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein."
"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."
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"We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already."
"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
"Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will."
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
"We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing."
"I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested."
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