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Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
Duke of Wellington
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Duke of Wellington
Age: 83 †
Born: 1769
Born: May 1
Died: 1852
Died: September 14
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Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley
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Publish and be damned.
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My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
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There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
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All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
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I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
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Napoleon has humbugged me, by God he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
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I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.
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If you believe that you will believe anything.
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Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
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The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
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Habit is ten times nature.
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My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
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The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance.
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A great country ought not to make little wars.
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It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.
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An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
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I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
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