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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.”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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