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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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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – 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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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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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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

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