"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin "I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can." -Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88 "Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content." -Paul Valery (1871 - 1945) "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." -Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
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"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the
great." -Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
"I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can." -Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and
their own content." -Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." -Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
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