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A host in himself. - said of Lord John Russell [Hospitality] An untoward event. (Threatening to disturb the balance of power.) - [Power] F.M. The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr. ------ and declines to interfere in circumstances over which he has no control. - [Circumstance] I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life. - attributed to, upon seeing the first Reformed Parliament [Hatters] The battle of Waterloo was won the playing fields of Eton. - attributed to, see Prof. W. Selwyn "Waterloo, a Lay of Jubilee" (second edition) [War] There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat. - attributed to, ascribed to D'Argensonby as reported by Grimm, see Emerson "Quotation and Originality" [Victory] Up Guards and at 'em! - attributed to, during the Battle of Waterloo, but denied by him [War] Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. - Despatch [War] There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake. - Letter to Mr. Huskisson [Mistake] 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. - Memorandum [Influence : Napoleon] The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill. - Saying [War]
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