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I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

— Peter Ustinov Words and Their Masters (1974)

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To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

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Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

All the hideously calculated hypocrisy of men when they commit a murder in the name of justice.

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