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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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Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler

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

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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. – Marquis De Sade

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Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when thats really where you wish they were. – George E. Bergman

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Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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