Arthur Wellesley Quotes

#1. Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

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#2. Habit is ten times nature.

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#3. When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.

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#4. When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

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#5. The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

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#6. Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

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#7. 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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#8. The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

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#9. It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

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

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

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#12. Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.

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#13. The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

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#14. Napoleon built his campaigns of iron and when one piece broke the whole structure collapsed. I made my campaigns using rope, and if a piece broke I tied a knot

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#15. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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#16. The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

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