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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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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
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Better Born Destruction Dumb Man Neighbor Reason
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Although virtue receives some of its excellencies from nature, yet it is perfected by education.
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Excellence Nature Perfection Virtue
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Exercise Mindset Subject Vice Virtue
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person.
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Generosity Herself Money Person Woman
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
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Examination Expectation Time
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.
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Difference Literature Poet Writing
Medicine for the dead is too late.
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Death Medicine One Liner
Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience One Liner Perspective Spirituality
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning

(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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