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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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"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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"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."
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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."
Fire
"As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption."
Love
"Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner."
Discovery
"Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive."
Man
"After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits."
Health
"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."
Media
"I look back to a happy childhood."
Family
"A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea."
History
"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export."
History
"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."
History
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