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Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact. - Ambrose Bierce Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. - Jean Cocteau Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer. - Charles Caleb Colton In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth. - Robertson Davies Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all men who would mount, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Without tact you can learn nothing. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. - Sarah Orne Jewett 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. - William Gilmore Simms A little management may often evade resistance, which a vast force might vainly strive to overcome. - Unknown
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