Reply of the Duke of Wellington to his Secretary for War, 1810
"My Lord, if I attempted to answer the mass of futile correspondence that surrounds me, I should be debarred from all serious business of campaigning! I must remind your Lordship - for the last time - that so long as I retain an independent position, I shall see to it that no officer under my command is debarred, by attending to the futile driveling of mere quill-driving in your Lordship's office, from attending to his first duty - which is, as always, to train the private men under his command that they may without question beat any force opposed to them in the field."
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