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My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

— Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886)

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

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They wanted this iron fist to command them.

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I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

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

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