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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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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau

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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death. – Jean Cocteau

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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 the intelligence of the heart. – Source Unknown

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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. – John Selden

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