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John Jay said that the greatest achievements of diplomacy were often little noted by history and that their authors got, in general, little credit.
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Hoar quotes John Jay to highlight the often-overlooked achievements of diplomats in shaping history.
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But I confess I like to leave on record, if I may, some evidence which will contradict the charge so constantly made by critics near home, that I am a man of intense partisan and personal bitterness.
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