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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

René de François Chateaubriand

The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man, only when the iron has wounded it.

Poets are like birds: the least thing makes them sing.

The conflagration spread like a flaming garland.