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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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A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. – Jean Cocteau

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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. – Jean Cocteau

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Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. – Matthew Prior

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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. – William Gilmore Simms

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Tact is knowing how far to go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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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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