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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.
— Horatio Nelson
Tags: know, night, truth, sea

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I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!
— Horatio Nelson
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I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
— Horatio Nelson
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If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
— Horatio Nelson
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Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
— Horatio Nelson
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