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