Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter: Difference between revisions

{{a|shitmaxim|}}{{shitmaxim|Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours burn any brighter}}Another one for people so taken up with the {{t|metaphor}}ical potential of their aphorisms, they miss its literal falsehood. Only someone who has been to a fireworks display at midday will know this not to be true. Now it might be true that doing down your fellow won’t improve your own career prospects — but don’t watch ''Game of Thrones'' if you want to hang onto that idea, but if you want your light to burn brighter, most certainly put all the other lights out.