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The only excuse to be made for all our mendicant diplomacy is the same as in the case of all other mendicancy, namely, that it has been founded on absolute necessity.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke justifies the necessity of diplomacy, equating it with the desperation of mendicancy.
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