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It is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler

It is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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

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Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen. – Source Unknown

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

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Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. – Matthew Prior

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