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• The whole of the Balkans are not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.
  -- Prince Otto von Bismark, -- first chancellor of the German Empire, 1871-1890...
• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
  -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) -- Despatch, 1815...
• I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph. -- Prince Bismark
• Politics is the doctrine of the possible, the attainable. -- Otto von Bismark (1815-1898)
• 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....
• Die Politik is keine exakte Wissenschaft. [Politics are not an exact science.
  ] -- Otto von Bismark (1815-1898)...
• With a gentleman I try to be a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
  -- Otto von Bismark...