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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1185
AUTHOR: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
QUOTATION: To know when to retreat; and to dare to do it.
ATTRIBUTION: ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON, when asked the best test of a great general.—Sir William Fraser, Words on Wellington, p. 37 (1889).
SUBJECTS: Military affairs
 


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