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

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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

Tact is the intelligence of the heart. – Source Unknown

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