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Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are

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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Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways. – Will Rogers

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The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. – Will Rogers

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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do. – Will Rogers

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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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The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and dont forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers. – C.S. Lewis

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When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. – Sun-Tzu

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Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. – Caskie Stinett, Out of the Red, 1960

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The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages will be known, far and wide, as a smart-ass. – Howard Kandel, The Power of Positive Pessimism: Proverbs for Our Times, 1964

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