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Jules Van Praet Quotes

1806–1887

Jules Van Praet (2 July 1806 – 29 December 1887) was a Belgian diplomat and personal secretary of King Leopold I of Belgium. He was born in Bruges, and died in Brussels aged 81.

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Always tell the truth, even if it should make him jump out of his shoe.

There is no longer a single government that colonizes. There is only individual colonization.

His Majesty has long been imbued with the immense utility which would result for Belgium from the possession of some commercial establishment outside her territory, outside the European continent. This thought constantly preoccupied the King.

A man of struggle and controversy, discussed and often vilified by the small press, I have always been an embarrassment to those who have employed me. My character and my faults are not an obstacle to my useful service in the active army, but they will make me ill-suited to fulfill the duties of the King's aide-de-camp which require extreme reserve and prudence.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jules Van Praet (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.