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    Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your read more

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say

by Henry Van Dyke Found in: Tact Quotes,
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Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: Tact Quotes,
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He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love

by Proverb Found in: Courtesy Quotes,
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; read more

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents

by William Gilmore Simms Found in: Tact Quotes,
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Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.

by Jean Cocteau Found in: Tact Quotes,
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

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

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

by Benjamin Franklin Found in: Tact Quotes,
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Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

by Orlando A. Battista Found in: Tact Quotes,
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