Quote#Truth
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth
Quote byHenry Wotton · 1568–1639
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reliquiae Wottonainae (1651). In a letter to Velserus, 1612, Wotton says, "This merry definition of an ambassador I had chanced to set down at my friend's, Mr. Christopher Fleckamore, in his Album"..
English (original)
An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
— Henry Wotton
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