Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be si

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything. – Benjamin Disraeli

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I repeat… that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. – Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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

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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