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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not sil

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. – Samuel Butler

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It is bad enough to see one’s own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people’s rubbish fathered upon oneself. – Samuel Butler

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One shouldnt talk of halters in the hanged mans house. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. – John Selden

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

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

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I was a queen, and you took away my crown a wife, and you killed my husband a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. – Marie Antoinette

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