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Fire is the best of servants; but what a master! — Thomas Carlyle

Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!

Thomas Carlyle
Past and Present · 1843
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Fire
Time
1843
Person
Thomas Carlyle
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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 2, ch. 9.
Original citation
Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 2, ch. 9.

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