20 For lack of wood the fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling ceases.

21 As charcoal is to hot embers and wood to fire, so is a quarrelsome person for kindling strife.

Proverbs 26:20-21, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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