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If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
Horatio Nelson
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Horatio Nelson
Age: 47 †
Born: 1758
Born: September 29
Died: 1805
Died: October 21
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The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.
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