#nearly

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school. ↗

— John Bright

#i #nearly #nine #old #regular

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. ↗

— John Bright

#any #aware #compared #contributor #cotton

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#identity #mind #nearly #over #particular

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#difference #exactly #nearly #oh #right

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep. ↗

— Helen Gurley Brown

#envy #every #glamorous #kind #might

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#drink #ghastly #good #good reason #huge

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right. ↗

— Bear Bryant

#coach #every #get #i #know

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#centuries #constitutional #counsel #court #discover

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly half have had a family member or close friend in a home in the past three years. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#close #close friend #experience #family #family member

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#believe #men #nearly #willing #wish