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Famous quotes containing the word close:

“Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first acts already past,
A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time’s noblest offspring is the last.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

“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)

“My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)