"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

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"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

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"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

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Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

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Garth Brooks, American Musician

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

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"More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

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"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars."

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