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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. - Wa

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. – Walter Bagehot

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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other mens thoughts, to speak other mens words, to follow other mens habits. – Walter Bagehot

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Opinion
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Walter Bagehot
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. – Walter Bagehot

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Teaching
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Walter Bagehot
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. – Walter Bagehot

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War
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Diplomacy
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An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. – Henry Wotton, Reliquiæ Wottonianæ

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Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. – David Lloyd George

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Diplomacy

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are to finishing it. You take Diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. – Will Rogers

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Diplomacy

When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat. – Author Unknown

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A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. – Author Unknown

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I had this child, and it destroyed my family. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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