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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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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. – Jean Cocteau

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

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Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. – William Shakespeare

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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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