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Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for th

Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke

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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke

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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. – E. M. Forster

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If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he does not know how wide it is, he will jump, and six times out of ten he will make it. – Proverb

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When a fox preaches, take care of your geese. – Proverb

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Dont dance on a volcano. – Proverb

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In Spring, everything is full of promise…. The child sporting upon the lawn, and the season, sympathize together, and nature rejoices in her virgin loveliness. – Charles Lanman, “The Dying Year,” 1840

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