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"You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen."

January 1, 1970

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Lord Fisher. In the London Times (June 16, 1919). Quoted by him as a "classic" and as "the apposite words spoken by a German naval officer to his English confrère." Lord Fisher comments, "On the whole I think I prefer to be the fool—even as a matter of business".

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Lord Fisher. In the London Times (June 16, 1919). Quoted by him as a "classic" and as "the apposite words spoken by a German naval officer to his English confrère." Lord Fisher comments, "On the whole I think I prefer to be the fool—even as a matter of business".