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"I will never be below the title."
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"Scholars will argue with each other about everything."
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"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you."
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"The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer."
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"We can choose to live under the ruler-ship of God or under the ruler-ship of the devil."
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"Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long."
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"This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written."
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"Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts."
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"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied."
Death
"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."
Politics
"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."
Will
"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."
Truth
"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty."
Trust
"Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon."
Mistake
"I cannot command winds and weather."
Leadership
"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."
Devil
"I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!"
Leadership
"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."
Nation
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