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"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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"Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year."

"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."

"If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting."

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

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

"Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil."
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