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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double,

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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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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Grief
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George Eliot
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot

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

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There are a few ironclad rules of diplomancy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way. – Isaac Goldberg

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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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