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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.
Duke of Wellington
The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.
Duke of Wellington
Just to show you how little reliance can be placed even on what are supposed the best accounts of a battle, I mention that there are some circumstances mentioned in General -'s account which did not occur as he relates them. It is impossible to say when each important occurrence took place, or in what order.
Duke of Wellington
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
Duke of Wellington
I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on
the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.
Duke of Wellington
