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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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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. – Samuel Butler

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God
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Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. – Samuel Butler

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler

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

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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. – Miguel de Cervantes

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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams

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