""A damn close run thing" – Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, referring to his victory over Napoleon at Waterloo."
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January 1, 1970

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He actually said, "It has been a damn nice thing-the nearest run thing you ever saw..." with nice in the archaic meaning of "careful or precise" and not the modern "attractive or agreeable" or the even more archaic meaning of "foolish".