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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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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. – William Shakespeare

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

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

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