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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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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. – Samuel Butler

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

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

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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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