#nearest

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

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At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. ↗

— George Carlin

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. ↗

— Bob Considine

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare. ↗

— Michael Tippett

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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. ↗

— Maggie Smith

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