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What we learn from history is that no one learns from history.
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I have always found the word "Europe" in the mouths of those politicians who wanted from other powers something they did not dare to demand in their own name.
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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The old Jew, he is the man.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to deal with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.
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You can't destroy the Poles but if you give them power they'll destroy themselves.
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So clobbeth the Poles so that they despair; they have my deepest sympathy for their situation, but, if we want to exist, we have no choice but to wipe them out; the wolf cannot help it that he was created by God the way he is, but one shoots him yet, if one can.
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He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
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