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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.
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.
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
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
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his read more
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation read more
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.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.
Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.