"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers."

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“Success, I trust — indeed have little doubt — will crown our zealous and well-meant endeavours: if not, our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.”

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“:Before this time tomorrow, I shall have gained a peerage or Westminster Abbey.”

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“: Thank God, I have done my duty.”

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