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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.

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

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Publish and be dammed.

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

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

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

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

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

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Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

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All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

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The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

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

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

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

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

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

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Habit is ten times nature.

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

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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.'

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

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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.

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An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

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