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

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

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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. – Matthew Prior

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

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

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. – William Gilmore Simms

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

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Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. – Max Beerbohm, “Hosts and Guests,” 1918

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If you ask an economist whats driven economic growth, its been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. – Larry Page

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You have to wake up a virgin each morning. – Jean-Louis Barrault

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Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. – Mitt Romney

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Marriage