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Duke of Wellington has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
• The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
• I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.
• The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
• Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
• We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
• As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their…
• I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
• The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
• There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
• The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for…
• Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

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