“Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.”
William Penn
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.”
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
“The flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them”
Thomas Jefferson
“There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman”
Victor Hugo
“Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return”
Seneca
“Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it”
Charles Lamb
“The strategy to embrace, extend, and extinguish has not necessarily gone away,”
Simon Phipps
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