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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington on war and peace

It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Remark to Thomas Creevey after the Battle of Waterloo (June 1815), in The Creevey Papers (1903); “nice” here means “delicately balanced”

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