"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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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

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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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"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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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

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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?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

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

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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Man is remembered by his deeds."

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