“Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.”

— James Wolfe

Source: To his troops, 12 September 1759, after reciting Thomas Gray's Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard the evening before storming Quebec City. Quoted in Francis Parkman's Montcalm and Wolfe

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