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setting fire

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Surely the Shadowhunter community must honor you and hold you in high esteem as a gentleman who has truly advanced their race. No, Henry said sadly. Mostly they wish that I would stop suggesting new inventions and cease setting fire to things. Cassandra Clare

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. Elsa Maxwell

I look at you and see my life that might have been your face just ghostly in the smoke. They're setting fire to the cornfields as you're taking me home. The smell of burning fields will now mean you and here. Kate Bush

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light. Russell Kirk

I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know. Iggy Pop

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