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

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

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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. – Oliver Herford

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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even… without any hope of doing it well. – Oliver Herford

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

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

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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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