acquaintance with
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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 neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices, my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.