Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Taken from the book The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) by Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914 believed)
Alex Raphael
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Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Taken from the book The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) by Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914 believed)
Alex Raphael 
What an interesting quote!
That it is. This one is great too https://alexraphael.wordpress.com/2013/12/07/lines-of-the-day-67/
What a brilliant quote! I love this book! 🙂
Glad you like it so much 🙂
Yeah. That’s pretty much spot on.
His biography was fascinating. This was other part of the definition I was tempted to add: “A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.”
Yeah. That one’s just as good.