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Duke of Wellington
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Duke of Wellington
Age: 83 †
Born: 1769
Born: May 1
Died: 1852
Died: September 14
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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Error is ever the sequence of haste.
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Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
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During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese!
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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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When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
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Napoleon has humbugged me, by God he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
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A great country ought not to make little wars.
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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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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
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Habit is ten times nature.
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I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
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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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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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Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
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