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Feldherr, Premierminister 1828 - 1830 (England, 1769 - 1852).

Herzog Arthur Wellesly von Wellington · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Herzog Arthur Wellesly von Wellington wäre heute 254 Jahre, 11 Monate, 29 Tage oder 93.135 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.04.1769 in Dublin
Gestorben am 14.09.1852 in Walmer Castle (Kent)
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Das größte Unglück ist eine verlorene Schlacht, das zweitgrößte eine gewonnene.
  • Unglück

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• Der Beginn von Reformen ist der Beginn der Revolution.
  • Revolution

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• Erfahrung ist die Summe der Fehler, die man gemacht hat.
  • Engagement
  • Fehler
  • Erfahrung(en)

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• Ich mißtraue jedem Urteil, das in einer Angelegenheit gefällt wird, welche die Interessen des Urteilenden berührt.
  • Interesse

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• Nichts außer einer verlorenen Schlacht kann halb so melancholisch stimmen wie eine gewonnene Schlacht.

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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 'guessing what was at the other side of the hill'.

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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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• Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.

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• I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

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• I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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

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• I used to say of him [Napoleon] that his presence on the field madethe difference of forty thousand men.

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• If you believe that, you'll believe anything.

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• Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

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• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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• Ours [our army] is composed of the scum of the earth-the mere scum of the earth.

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• Possible? Is anything impossible? Read the newspapers.

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• Publish and be damned.

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• The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

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• The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

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