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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
Jurist
Politician
Statesman
Otto Eduard Leopold
Prince of Bismarck
Duke of Lauenburg
Iron Chancellor
Otto von Bismarck-Schönhausen
Prince Bismarck
Bismarck
Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck-Schönhausen Fürst von Bismarck
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Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.
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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family under certain conditions, one can even rely upon it but one can never expect anything from the gratitude of a nation.
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