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"I would have been Washington"

What Napoleon's confession from exile reveals about greatness

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Dec 31, 2025
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โ€œHad I been in America, I would willingly have been a Washington... But had Washington been in France, I would have defied him to have been what he was in America; at least, he would have been a fool to attempt it.โ€ โ€” Napoleon, from exile in St. Helena, 1815

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