Quotes by Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington

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• Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

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• Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.

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• Habit is ten times nature.

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• Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.

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• I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

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• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.

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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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• 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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• We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.

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• When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

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• pounding
• greatest
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