"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others."
"I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them."
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Source: Die Reden des Ministerpräsidenten von Bismarck-Schönhausen im Preußischen Landtage 1862-1865. Book by Horst Kohl, 1903.
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