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Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.