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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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A great country ought not to make little wars.
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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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There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
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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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Error is ever the sequence of haste.
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I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
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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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There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.
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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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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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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
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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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Habit is ten times nature.
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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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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
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Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
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What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
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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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Napoleon has humbugged me, by God he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
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