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101 " The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true. "
102 " 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. "
103 " You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. "
104 " The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties. "
105 " Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. "
106 " 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. "
107 " Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. "
― Ambrose Bierce
108 " As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership. "
109 " I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time. "