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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
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 is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
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
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.
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be read more
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.