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• Circumstances over which I have no control. -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
  -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) -- Despatch, 1815...
• There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
  -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) -- Letter to Mr. Huskisso...
• 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....
• Publish and be damned! -- Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington 1769-1852 -- Attributed
  when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his lette...
• 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) (1805-1881) -- Sybil, Book i, Chap. iii...
• I am astounded ... at the wonderful power you have developed - and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
  -- Arthur Sullivan, -- on seeing a demonstration of Edison's new talking machine in 1888...
• There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry. -- The Duke of Wellingto
• For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Stanza 6...