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"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."
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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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"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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"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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"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?"
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"That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war."
War
"Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?"
Man
"There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended."
Effort
"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
"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
"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
"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
"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."
Battle
"If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there."
Blame
"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."
Fire
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