"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."

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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."

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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."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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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."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."

Abbie Hoffman, American Activist

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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

Dinah Shore, American Actress

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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

Imran Khan, Pakistani Athlete

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"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."

Ethel Merman, American Musician

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Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."

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"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here."

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"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."

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"I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth."

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"I know that money speaks more loudly than need."

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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."

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"That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work."

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"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."

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"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."

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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."

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