"Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. " 
~Italian Proverb

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"The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire."
~Leigh Hunt

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"One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet."  
~Odell Shepard

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"The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.  It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness."  
~Henry David Thoreau

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"Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it.  The reason?  Because he alone has learned to put it out."  

~Henry Jackson Vandyke, Jr.