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DUKE OF WELLINGTON, ARTHUR WELLESLEY
British military and political leader
(1769 - 1852)

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.
      - [War]

Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.
      - [Business]

Circumstances over which I have no control.
      - [Circumstance]

Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils.
      - [Religion]

Error is ever the sequence of haste.
      - [Haste]

Extra interest signifies extra risk.
      - [Usury]

Habit is ten times nature.
      - [Habit]

Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we will see who can pound the longest.
      - at Waterloo [Perseverance]

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
      - [Judgment]

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
      - [Rashness]

Take my word for it, if you had seen but one day of war, you would pray to Almighty God that you might never see such a thing again.
      - [War]

The Lord's Prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
      - [Prayer]

The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
      - [Battle]

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.
      - [Courage]

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
      - [Cowards]

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.
      - [Early Rising]

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