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"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."
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"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Happiness
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
Government
"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
Age
"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
Want
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Man
"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body."
Food
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
Society
"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."
Man
"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs."
Man
"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."
Love
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