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

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

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The secret of mans success resides in his insight into the moods of people, and his tact in dealing with them. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar. – William Shakespeare

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent. – William Gilmore Simms

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels. – John Selden

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