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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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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

One shouldnt talk of halters in the hanged mans house. – Miguel de Cervantes

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

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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So of all the particulars of health and exercise, and fit nutriment, and tonics. Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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