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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.
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Impossible Misunderstand Possible Talk Understand
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Easy Mindset Teaching
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
Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.
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Compulsion Goodness Secure Study
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
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
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
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
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Difference Evil Opportunity
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
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Appearance Fools Virtue Wisdom
God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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Animal Creation Faculty God Impression Nature Powerful Talk
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort.
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Courage Effort Mistake Severe Teacher Worth
A liar must have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Exception Honor Man Necessary

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