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• Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. 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.

  Duke of Wellington

  Fashion, Art, Cheer

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• I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

  Duke of Wellington

  Clever, Men, Cases

  Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (2012). “Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century”, p.99, tredition

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• There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

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  Mistake, Has Beens

  'Wellingtoniana' (1852) p. 78

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• A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

  Duke of Wellington

  Country, War, Littles

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• If you believe that you will believe anything.

  Duke of Wellington

  Believe, If You Believe, Ifs

  Attributed reply to a gentleman who accosted him in the street saying, 'Mr. Jones, I believe?'

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• I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

  Duke of Wellington

  Funny, Science, Technology

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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.

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Names, Enemy

  Dispatch to Torrens, 29 August 1810 (usually quoted as 'I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me', and also attributed to George III)

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• Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

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  Battle, Next, Misery

  In Frances, Lady Shelley 'Diary' p. 102

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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.

  Duke of Wellington

  Friends, Hate, Believe

  Noted in Lady Salisbury's diary, 26 October 1833, in C. Oman 'The Gascoyne Heiress' (1968) 3

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• I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

  Duke of Wellington

  Manners, Small Talk

  In G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 14

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• What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

  Duke of Wellington

  Coward, Uniforms, Mask

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• Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

  Duke of Wellington

  Military, Believe, Hero

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1838). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.590

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• A great country ought not to make little wars.

  Duke of Wellington

  Country, War, Littles

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

  Duke of Wellington

  Prayer, Religion, Moral

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• I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

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  Army, Infamous, Weak

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1838). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.358

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• I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on
  the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

  Duke of Wellington

  Loss, Gains, September

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1837). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.404

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• I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.

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  Country, Government, Long

  "The House of Lords: A handbook for Liberal speakers, writers and workers". Book by Liberal Publication Department, p. 19, 1910.

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• It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

  Duke of Wellington

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  Notes for September 18, 1836. "Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington, 1831-1851". Book by Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope, 1886.

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• Publish and be damned.

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  Classic, Publish

  Attributed in George Bernard Shaw, Mrs.Warren's Profession (1898). This wasWellington's alleged response in 1824 to a blackmail threat from a publisher about to release the Memoirs of courtesan Harriette Wilson, who had been the duke's mistress and was ready to "name names." These words supposedly were written in bright red ink on the blackmailing letter, with the letter then returned to the publisher. However, the letter survives at Apsley House and has no trace of such a reply.

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

  Duke of Wellington

  War, Victory, Battle

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• Extra interest signifies extra risk.

  Duke of Wellington

  Risk, Usury, Interest

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• Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.

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  Order, Important, Battle

  Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.) (1838). “The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index”, p.609

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