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Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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	Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
	(1769-1852) Upon seeing the first Reformed Parliament, Sir William Fraser, in 'Words on Wellington' (1889), p. 12 - British general, statesman, crushed Napoleon at Waterloo, known as iron duke.

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I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

Circumstances over which I have no control.

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.