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Duke of Wellington
Age: 83 †
Born: 1769
Born: May 1
Died: 1852
Died: September 14
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If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.
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I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
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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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The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
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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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A great country ought not to make little wars.
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The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
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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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Error is ever the sequence of haste.
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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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Habit is ten times nature.
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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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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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There is no mistake there has been no mistake and there shall be no mistake.
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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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My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
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The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
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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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What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
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