Reply by lumberjoe

My favorite one is in my signature. It is pretty self explanatory, but means teaching someone to do something is better than doing it for them or giving them something. Benjamin Disraeli was a prime minister of England in the 1870’s

A “funny” (in the dark humor sense) misinterpretation of a similar quote reads:
Give a man a fire and he will be warm for a night. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life

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