Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fata

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 to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. – Oliver Herford

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

Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far. – Jean Cocteau

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