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A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

Lord Darling

A timid question will always receive a confident answer.

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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Warren W. Wiersbe

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

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Without tact you can learn nothing.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing.

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If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishness...

Saint Benedict

If any pilgrim monk come from distant parts with wish as a guest to dwell in the monastery and will be content with the customs which he finds in the place and does not perchance by his lavishness...

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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.

Oscar Wilde

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.

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

Henry Wotton

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

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Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

Charles de Gaulle

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.

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If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

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In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

John Taliaferro

In this slipshod age, we need object lessons in language and thought. – Edith Wharton on an address by John Hay

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A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

Anonymous

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

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Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

David Sedaris

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

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About Lord Darling

Lord Darling or Baron Darling may refer to:

Baron Darling, a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created in 1924
Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling (1849–1936), English lawyer, politician and High Court judge
Alistair Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish (1953–2023), British Labour Party politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2007 to 2010
George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough (1905–1985), British Labour and Co-operative Party politician