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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Quote of the Day (The Duke of Wellington, on Battles Lost and Won)
“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so
melancholy as a battle won.” —The Duke of Wellington, in a dispatch of 1815,
quoted in S.A. Bent, Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men
(1887)
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