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Waterloo
«The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton»
Author: Arthur Wellesley
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«I have not always in my dealings with General de Gaulle found quotations from Trafalgar and Waterloo necessarily productive, and he has been very tactful about the Battle of Hastings.»
Author: Harold Wilson
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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«A few years ago it was considered chic to serve Beef Wellington; fortunately, like Napoleon, it met its Waterloo.»
«I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
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«The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.»
Author: John Updike
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Expectation
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«The loss of the battle of Waterloo was the salvation of France»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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«Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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