promote quotes

Re  compensez, avancez ce jeune homme; car, si l'on e  tait ingrat envers lui, il s'avancerait de lui-me"  me. Reward that young man, promote him; for if his services are not recognised, he will promote himself.

- General Jean Fran c° ois Coquille Dugommier
 Comment to the Minister for  War, speaking of the 24-year- old Napoleon Bonaparte, after the siege of  Toulon. Quoted in John  Julius Norwich Venice (1981).