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"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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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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"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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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
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"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."
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"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."
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"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."
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"General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle."
Creativity
"Before my troops reached the little city, and before the people of Fredericksburg knew that any part of the Confederate army was near, there was great excitement over the demand for surrender."
People
"That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war."
War
"As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the six brigades by heavy skirmish lines, to be followed by stronger supporting lines."
Battle
"I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best."
Thought
"In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back."
Being
"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."
Fire
"My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear."
Victory
"Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them."
Being
"I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee."
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