So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some dis

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

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

Tact is the intelligence of the heart. – Source Unknown

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. – Benjamin Franklin

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