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“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Despatch, 1815.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 88b99e866f6ca8b4991c7046018db0876096ec6b9c98bd55b74bc58f0a3eb720
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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