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"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."
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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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"I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused."
Ambition
"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."
Fire
"Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it."
Happiness
"One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends."
Friendship
"There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed."
Thought
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