"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."

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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."

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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

Michael Grant, American Author

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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

Max Muller, German Educator

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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Craig Shirley, American Author

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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."

Nancy Cartwright, American Actress

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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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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"

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"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

"Storytelling is what lights my fire."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."

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

"I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all."

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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."

"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

"One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin."

"The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."