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Harold MacMillan

At home, you always have to be a politician when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

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When you are at home, you constantly manage relationships and opinions carefully, like a politician trying to balance different interests. However, when you are in a foreign place, you feel more important and influential, as if you are representing your country on a bigger stage like a statesman.

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