Famous quotes containing the words actual, mechanical and/or advantage:
“Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“The great advantage of a new friend is that we have not yet found one another out.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)