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Jai Ganesh

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Chimney Quotes

Chimney Quotes

1. Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel. - Benjamin Franklin

2. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. - Vincent Van Gogh

3. Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys. - Christopher Columbus

4. No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? - Bertrand Russell.

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