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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Wellington

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils.

Habit is ten times nature.

Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest.At Waterloo.

“Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.”After Waterloo.

The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

Uniforms are often masks.