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.

In the original Latin

Legatus est vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendum rei publicæ causâ.

1604
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Wotton, Henry. Album of Christopher Fleckamore. c. 1604.

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