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  I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

• Molly Ivins:

  'The New York Times' is a great newspaper: it is also No Fun.

• Horatio Nelson:

  I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

• Horatio Nelson:

  Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

• Horatio Nelson:

  England expects that every man will do his duty.

• Horatio Nelson:

  Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that hi

• Horatio Nelson:

  Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

• Horatio Nelson:

  Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, howeve

• Horatio Nelson:

  First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

• Horatio Nelson:

  Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own