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Publish and be damned.
Yes, about ten minutes.
Habit is ten times nature.
I have seen their backs before.
Error is ever the sequence of haste.
Extra interest signifies extra risk.
The only thing I am afraid of is fear.
Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
A great country cannot wage a little war.
A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
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!
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.
Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.
When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
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.
Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.
Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
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.
It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.
Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.
I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
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.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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.
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
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.