“676. A little wind kindles, much puts out the fire.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“319. Little sticks kindle the fire, great ones put it out.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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