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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
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Poet Quick Writing Yourself
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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Different Easy Time
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
It is much easier to try one’s hand at many things than to concentrate one’s powers on one thing.
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Easy Hand Oneself Power Try
While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.
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Action Beginning Late
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish
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
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
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
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Complimentary Design Laughter Raise
Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty.
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Beautiful Exact Similar
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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Break Easy Evil Habit Repair Settle

(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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