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Ambrose Bierce
: An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce :
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Oliver Goldsmith :
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When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
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Doris Lessing :
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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Charles Lamb :
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
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John Wilmot :
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It is a good world to live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in; But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.
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Logan Pearsall Smith :
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We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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Ambrose Bierce :
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Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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