No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
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Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
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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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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.
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Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
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It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
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