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The Ambassador is sent abroad to lie for the good of his country remains a model of intrigue, in which he also plays an adscititious, nondescript game between the people of his country, and the government to which he is sent.

— Henry Wotton

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He first deceased; she for a little tried
To live without him, liked it not, and died.

Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (1651)

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.

Preface to the Elements of Architecture (1624)

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Written in the album of Christopher Fleckmore (1604)

Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.

Advised a young diplomat "to tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound his enemies."

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