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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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"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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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."
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"Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled."
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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
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"Running like a bunny with his tail on fire."
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"Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water."
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"Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it."
Integrity
"Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again."
Philosophy
"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
Learning
"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
Life
"In short, he felt himself to be in love in the right place, and was ready to endure a great deal of predominance, which, after all, a man could always put down when he liked. Sir James had no idea that he should ever like to put down the predominance of this handsome girl, in whose cleverness he delighted. Why not? A man's mind"what there is of it"has always the advantage of being masculine,"as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm,"and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality. Sir James might not have originated this estimate, but a kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition."
Relationship
"He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man."
Relationship
"Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear."
Communication
"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
Control
"Necessity does the work of courage."
Courage
"I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them."
Thought
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