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Quote by Henry James
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-po

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. – Henry James

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The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? – Henry James

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I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it. – Henry James

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Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. – Oliver Herford

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It is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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Tact is the intelligence of the heart. – Source Unknown

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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. – Benjamin Franklin

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