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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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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence. – Samuel Butler

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

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Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. – Oliver Herford

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Tact is the intelligence of the heart. – Source Unknown

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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

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