Barbara Tuchman's Quote - Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres o

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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres o

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. – Barbara Tuchman

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. – Barbara Tuchman

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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. – Barbara Tuchman

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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot

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

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Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie! till you can find a rock. – Wynn Catlin

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My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog. – Carl Rowan

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