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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 blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler

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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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

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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. – Sarah Orne Jewett

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

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