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Horatio Nelson

"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."

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"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."

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"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."

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"Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made."

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"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."

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"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."

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"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"

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"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."

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"My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive."

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"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."

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