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The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
Habit is ten times nature.
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
It had been a damned nice thing - the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life. (Waterloo 18 June 1815)
'I hope to God,' he said one day,'that I have fought my last battle.It is a bad thing to be always fighting.While in the thick of it,I am much too occupied to feel anything;but it is wretched just after.It is quite impossible to think of glory.Both mind and feeling are exhausted.I am wretched even at the moment of victory,and I always say that next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.Not only do you lose those dear friends with whom you have been living,but you are forced to leave the wounded behind you.To be sure one tries to do the best for them,but how little that is!At such moments every feeling in your breast is deadened.I am now just beginning to retain my natural spirits,but I never wish for any more fighting.
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
