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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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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – 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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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. – Sarah Orne Jewett

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

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