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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
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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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"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful."
Habit
"A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock."
Character
"True greatness consists in being great in little things."
Greatness
"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
Fire
"Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil."
Heart
"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."
Argument
"The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands."
God
"No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right."
Man
"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage."
Love
"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."
Power
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