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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'.
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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