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"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."
Duke of Wellington / Despatch, 1815.
Despatch, 1815.
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"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."
Duke of Wellington / Mem. by the Duke, Sept. 18, 1836.
Mem. by the Duke, Sept. 18, 1836.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life."
Duke of Wellington / Upon seeing the first Reformed Parliament.
Upon seeing the first Reformed Parliament.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake."
Duke of Wellington / Letter to Mr. Huskisson.
Letter to Mr. Huskisson.
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"The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,--a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others."
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) / Sybil. Book i. Chap. iii.
Sybil. Book i. Chap. iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime."
Alfred Tennyson / Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Oh good gray head which all men knew!"
Alfred Tennyson / Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew."
Alfred Tennyson / Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun."
Alfred Tennyson / Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 6.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 6.
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"Not once or twice in our rough-island story The path of duty was the way to glory."
Alfred Tennyson / Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 8.
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 8.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain