Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

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No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Collection: Leadership
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The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Collection: Fighting
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Love: It is like a cigar. If it goes out, you can light it again but it never tastes quite the same.
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Collection: Love
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There is no room in war for delicate machinery.
- Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Collection: War