Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
More quotes from Arthur Wellesley
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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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
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The Lord’s prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
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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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Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
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It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
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When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
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Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
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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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Habit is ten times nature.
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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
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The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
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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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