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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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Tact, Tactfulness
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. – Marquis De Sade

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

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

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