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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
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Audience Best Big Pride Teacher Worth
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.
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Afflict Sense Suffering
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
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
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
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
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Gift Natural Rule Technical
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
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Appearance Teaching
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
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
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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Advantage Hope Protection Win
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Arrival Lost Perfection Vanish

(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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