"The burnt child dreads the fire." — Ben Jonson

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• By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really… — Eric Bana
• I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a… — Ben Affleck
• Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It… — Louis D. Brandeis
• So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to… — Lee Child
• There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land… — John Henrik Clarke
• I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It… — Adolf Hitler
• Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet. — Diane Ackerman
• What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings… — Edwin Percy Whipple
• The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead… — John Updike
• Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet… — Thomas Jefferson
• Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing… — Cheryl Strayed
• The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to… — Bertrand Russell

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