Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

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• The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • School
  • Courage
  • Poverty