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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

Other quotes by Walter Bagehot

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot

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Poverty
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. – Walter Bagehot

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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. – Charles de Gaulle

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We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it. – Walt W. Rostow

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I must acknowledge, once and for all, that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis. – Star Trek, Mr. Spock

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

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Football is the opera of the people. – Stafford Heginbotham, 1985

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