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Quote by Horatio Nelson
Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacki

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

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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

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Truth
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Horatio Nelson
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My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive. – Horatio Nelson

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Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. – Horatio Nelson

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But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean Im told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society… but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. – Harold Bloom

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Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone. – Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. – Henry David Thoreau

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I cant really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? – Audre Lorde

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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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