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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
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Criticism Development Imagination Mindset Promise
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Defeat Protection Wisdom
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Change Food Fresh Mindset Stomach
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. The opportunity is lost.
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Beginning Lost Mindset Opportunity Time
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Man Quality Value Wrong
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
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Kind Natural Oneself Separate Soul
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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Assistance Capacity Natural Rule
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.
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Deep Please
In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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Crowd Journey Seclusion

(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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