“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.”
“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
“An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.”
“Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.”
“Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.”