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

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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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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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Leonard Rose, American Musician

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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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"Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses."

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Robert Fulghum, American Author

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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?"

"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."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

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

"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

"Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses."

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

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"Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace."

"A wise man's question contains half the answer."

"As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave."

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"Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings."

"And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do."

"Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives."

"If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend."

"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."