"The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,--a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

"As Duke Ellington once said, "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton." [...] About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business — well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck."

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