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"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."
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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."
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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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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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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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"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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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling."
People
"The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis."
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"The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it."
Quality
"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles."
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"Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact."
Creativity
"Advice to persons about to marry - don't."
Advice
"In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity."
Location
"We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course."
Location
"Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved."
Dance
"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."
Knowledge
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