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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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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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Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when thats really where you wish they were. – George E. Bergman

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

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

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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. – Benjamin Disraeli

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