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— Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo."
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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.
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