Napoleon Bonaparte — "The art of being a bore is to say everything."
The art of being a bore is to say everything.
The art of being a bore is to say everything.
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"Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool."
"I made all my generals out of mud."
"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard to conquer her, and I will not allow anyone to take her from me."
"There for awhile I thought the jig was up. I told myself: this is act one of the cage story. Caulaincourt had better start learning to growl like a bear."
"If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have wished to be born Alexander."
French military leader who crowned himself Emperor in 1804, conquered most of continental Europe, and was finally defeated at Waterloo (1815) before exile to Saint Helena. Closely associated with Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand (his foreign minister, then his betrayer). For an intellectual contrast, see Duke of Wellington, British general and later Prime Minister — Wellington's Peninsular and Waterloo campaigns finally defeated Napoleon. The two never met but their generalships are the canonical opposed European military traditions — Napoleon's offensive-genius mass-conscription model and Wellington's defensive-discipline reverse-slope tactics are the textbook 'French Revolutionary vs British line' military pairing.
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