George Canning/ambassador To Lisbon - 1814%e2%80%931816

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“No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

“A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)

“An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)