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Quote by Benjamin Franklin
A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar

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

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

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

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. – Miguel de Cervantes

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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. – Maurice Strong

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In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world. – Bob Brown

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