I'm sure this has been asked before, mechanic precautions

Captainkirk said

If I said it was an old English proverb, ya wouldn't have believed me.
We don't think of **** like that.....

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I think the English proverb says
"build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a night but light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"