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Famous quotes containing the word close:

“When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“And then I know of no better way
To close a road, abandon a farm,
Reduce the births of the human race,
And bring back nature in people’s place.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)