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(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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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
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
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
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Ourselves Verse
Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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Advice Beginning End Proverb
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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Art Feeling Learning Pleasure Reason Understand
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
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Arrival Genius Maturity
A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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Cost Expense Laughter Virtue
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
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Capacity Writing
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
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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Change Greatness Nature
Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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Alone Light Man Rude
A liar ought to have a good memory.
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Goodness Lying Memories
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
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling in not actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.
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Equality Follow Himself Man Quite Success
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
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Beginning Deliberate Growth
Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures.
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Happiness Pleasure Satire
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason.
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Appearance Better Comic Reason Worst Writing
Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.
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Ambition Father Vice Virtue
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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Fast Oneself Result Writing
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
It is the heart which inspires eloquence.
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Heart Inspirational One Liner
She abounds with lucious faults.
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Flaw Herself
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Art Hide Perfection
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
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Appearance Fools Learning
Usage is the best language teacher.
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Language One Liner Teacher
We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
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Form Mindset Reading Wide

(Slaughter) means blood and iron.

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