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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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You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.
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My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
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Publish and be damned.
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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
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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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It is not the business of generals to shoot one 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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Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
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There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.
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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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Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
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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 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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I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.
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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
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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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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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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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