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My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

~Horatio Nelson

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

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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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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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Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

~Horatio Nelson

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Soldier

Born: September 29th, 1758

Died: October 21st, 1805

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