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Duke of Wellington
Age: 83 †
Born: 1769
Born: May 1
Died: 1852
Died: September 14
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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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The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
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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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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
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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 attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself
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Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
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The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
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The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
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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 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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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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There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
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Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
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I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
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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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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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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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I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
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