“Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his busmess.”
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“Call on a business man at business times only, and on business, transact your business and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his busmess.”
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“I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.”
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“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”
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“The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.”
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“When my journal appears, many statues must come down.”
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“Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.”
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“Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.”
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“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hi...”
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“It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.”
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“As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'”
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“I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”
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“The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.”
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“Habit is ten times nature.”
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“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.”
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