Famous quotes containing the words dean and/or close:
“Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.”
—William Dean Howells (18371920)
“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)