1924. Quoted in H. Blair Neatby, William Lyon Mackenzie King (Methuen, 1963), p. 40.
1920s
“Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
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“A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages. ”
As quoted in Топ-10 самых скандальных и оскорбительных высказываний Лукашенко http://europeanbelarus.org/be/news/2012/2/24/3941/ // Civil campaign European Belarus, europeanbelarus.org (in Russian)
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1870s
Quoted in The New York Times, January 14, 1962 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A03E4D8153DEE32A25757C1A9679C946391D6CF
2010s, 2016, January, Speech at (18 January 2016)