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Let me alone: I have yet my l...

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.

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Whoever gains the palm by mer...

Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it.

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Thank God I have done my duty...

Thank God I have done my duty. Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub. Kiss me, Hardy.

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A fleet of British ships at w...

A fleet of British ships at war are the best negotiators.

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In honour I gained them, and ...

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

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I have only one eye, I have a...

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

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I could not tread these peril...

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

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Firstly you must always impli...

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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If I had been censured every ...

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.

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My greatest happiness is to s...

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

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The business of the English c...

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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It is warm work; and this day...

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.

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Buonaparte has often made his...

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.

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Now I can do no more. We must...

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.

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Treat every Frenchman as if h...

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

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I cannot command winds and we...

I cannot command winds and weather.

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When I follow my own head, I ...

When I follow my own head, I am, in general, much more correct in my judgment than following the opinion of others.

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If a man consults whether he ...

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.

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Never break the neutrality of...

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.

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Our country will, I believe, ...

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

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