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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
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Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe that's why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.
Kim Edwards
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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.


Rabindranath Tagore
It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.


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


Marilyn vos Savant
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot
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Twenty-two million cases of hepatitis B are spread every year because of the reuse of syringes. The WHO says one in two injections given is unsafe.
Marc Koska
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Tiangong 1, our home in space, was comfortable and pleasant.


Liu Yang
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I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.
Charles Francis Richter
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
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He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.


Horace
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.


Vern Buchanan
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I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.
Rick Majerus
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas J. Watson
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It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.


Chuck Noll
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I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor acquaintance.
Lynn Coady
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I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.


Caryl Chessman
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The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
George Catlin
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