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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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I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? – Jean Cocteau

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

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

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