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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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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau

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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. – Jean Cocteau

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. – Jean Cocteau

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Tact is knowing how far to go too far. – 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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Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when thats really where you wish they were. – George E. Bergman

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

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