In response to the cheer that was raised after he sent the signal "England expects every Man will do his Duty.", as quoted in James Stanier Clarke and John McArthur, The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B. from His Lordship's Manuscripts (1810), p. 667
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"I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me."
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.
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