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Publish and be damned.
Yes, about ten minutes.
Habit is ten times nature.
I have seen their backs before.
Always make water when you can.
Extra interest signifies extra risk.
Error is ever the sequence of haste.
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
A great country cannot wage a little war.
I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.
If you believe that you will believe anything.
A great country ought not to make little wars.
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.
When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.
When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
A great country can have no such thing as a little war.
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.
Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.
God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.
The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned
Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.