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GOVERNMENT > statesman > Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
The art of...
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The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, (Feb 13 1754-1838), French statesman; He was minister of Foreign Affairs, 1797-99; opposed Lousiana Purchase, 1803.