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You can do anything with children if you only play with them.

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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
Anything
Play
Children

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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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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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The Balkans arent worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
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Our German forefathers had a very kind religion. They believed that, after death, they would meet again all the good dogs that had been their companions in life. I wish I could believe that too.
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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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Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.
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Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.
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A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being.
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Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
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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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I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions ... more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.
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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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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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