"Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others."
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"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
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"You can do anything with children if you only play with them."
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"I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations."
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"A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence."
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"He who has his thumb on the purse has the power."
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"Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil."
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"Great men have great dogs."
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"Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own."
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"You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves"
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"He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of States ... and the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon."
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"I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk."
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"Hounds follow those who feed them."
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"Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury."
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"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence."
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"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry."
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"Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices."
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"A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being."
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"Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful."
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"The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier."
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