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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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. – Henry James

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Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen. – Source Unknown

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

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. – Miguel de Cervantes

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