"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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"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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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

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"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."

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Max Muller, German Educator

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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

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"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."

Garth Brooks, American Musician

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."

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"All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."

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