"Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us."
"I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved."
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Source: Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.41, MarcoPolo
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