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Famous quotes containing the word pass:

    Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    As I pass down the corridor
    past desperate faces at each cell,
    your eyes and my eyes may meet.
    You will be dark, unkempt,
    but I pray for one glimpse of your face
    why do I want this?
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)