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Diplomacy, defined: "Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way."
β Lester B. Pearson, 1965
Diplomacy, mystery of: Diplomacy is "an obscure art, which hides itself in the folds of deceit, which fears to let itself be seen, and believes that it can exist only in the darkness of mystery."
β Le TrΓ΄ne, 1777
Diplomacy, nasty things said nicely: "Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way."
β Proverb
Diplomacy, pleasure of: "Diplomacy is a first-class stall seat at the theatre of life."
β Bernhard von BΓΌlow
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Chas W. Freeman Jr. (The Diplomat's Dictionary)