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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Edmund Burke
Fire, Play, House
'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 10
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.