British - Public | May 1, 1769 - September 14, 1852
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Duke of Wellington
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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
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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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Habit is ten times nature.
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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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Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
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The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
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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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The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
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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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