“I don't know why, but the little bastard scares me.”

— Napoleon I of France

Laura Harrington http://www.laura-harrington.com/index4.html, in N http://www.pilgrimtheatre.org/performances/N/default.htm, portraying a comment by one of his generals when he showed up to command the army of Italy.
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French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769–1821

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