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Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. - Matthew Prior

Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. – Matthew Prior

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey. – Matthew Prior

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Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. – Benjamin Disraeli

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

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Tact is knowing how far to go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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Im interested to go other places, Ive been the boy in the bubble since weve been shooting, I need to go travel a little bit, see where the action is, other than going to see family, of course. – George Eads

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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. – Francis Beaumont

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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. – Chinese Proverb

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