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“An ambassador is someone who thinks twice before he says nothing” -

attributed to one of India's ambassadors in Argentina at the time.”
Tony Leon, The Accidental Ambassador
“The citizens have “the extraordinary and exhausting practice of sitting down to dinner at any time between 10m and 11 p.m. I found it challenging to stay animated and conversational when my normal bedtime was usually about the time that the first course was being cleared”.”
Tony Leon, The Accidental Ambassador
“Given that the doubtless unsuspecting taxpayers of South Africa provided every diplomat abroad with free housing, a foreign service allowance (in addition to salary) and, in the case of ambassadors, two full-time, live-in domestics, it became apparent why many found such a feather-bedded life abroad so appealing”.”
Tony Leon, The Accidental Ambassador

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