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Quote by Jean Cocteau
Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. -

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. – Jean Cocteau

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Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. – Jean Cocteau

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

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The secret of mans success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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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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