"Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit." — Henry Fielding

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• We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth… — Bill Bryson
• To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. — Robert Burton
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• When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp… — George Carlin
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• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even… — Marshall McLuhan
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