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"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."
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"Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole."

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."

"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."

"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"Between the happening of a historical process and its recognition by rulers, a lag stretches, full of pitfalls."

"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."

"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."

"One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics."

"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"

"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."
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