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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Awake Dreams Hope
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
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
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
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
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Alone Desire Excite Feeling Law
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
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.
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Father Food Nature Poor Stranger Togetherness
He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Evil Himself Opportunity Talk
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
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Beginning Herself Learning Nature Touch Virtue
If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.
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Direct Eyes Mindset Reach Work

(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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