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Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on
fire.
[Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum read more
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on
fire.
[Lat., Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.]
We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers.
We don't negotiate the deal. We're just the matchmakers.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight
Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight
Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter a little read more
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things.
Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue
among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth
on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.
Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire.
The burnt child dreads the fire.
The burnt child dreads the fire.
