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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- Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
- Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
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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.
- Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.