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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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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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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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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh 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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"Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard."
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"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."
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"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."
People
"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."
Perspective
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
World
"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."
Discipline
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
Expression
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
Change
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
War
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
Mistake
"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
Wisdom
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality
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