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

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

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After the writers death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. – Jean Cocteau

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

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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. – 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 after all a kind of mind reading. – Sarah Orne Jewett

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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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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. – Benjamin Disraeli

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