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All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light.
— Margot Asquith
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I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.
— Robert Southey
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