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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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. – Samuel Butler

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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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