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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
Otto von Bismarck
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Otto von Bismarck
Age: 83 †
Born: 1815
Born: April 1
Died: 1898
Died: July 30
Diplomat
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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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History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.
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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 bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
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The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night
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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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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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The luxury of one's own opinion.
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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.
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There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.
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This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs it can only be carried out through blood and iron.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.
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