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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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Personal Development
"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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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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Personal Development
"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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Personal Development
"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 Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away."
Life
"Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance."
Desire
"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice."
Self
"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."
Life
"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."
Experience
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."
Difference
"Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted."
Life
"No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it."
Life
"There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins."
Man
"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
Experience
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