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Duke of Wellington
Age: 83 †
Born: 1769
Born: May 1
Died: 1852
Died: September 14
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Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
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I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
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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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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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Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
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Error is ever the sequence of haste.
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As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.
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There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.
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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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As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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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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I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
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The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
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Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
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Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
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A great country ought not to make little wars.
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