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tact
«Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement they do not feel, they call it being tactful. Cowardice would be a much better name.»
Author: Frank Medlicott
| About:
Mistakes
| Keywords:
agreement, cowardice, feign, feigning, in agreement, tact, tactful, weakness
«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.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Courtesy,
Friendship,
Relationships,
Tact
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, be intimate, come into, courtesies, courtesy, disagreeable, disagreeable person, flatter, flat out, intimates, intimate with, intimating, nearer, necessary, relation, tact
«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»
«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»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Perseverance,
Tact
| Keywords:
most-valuable, mount, tact, The Crowd
«It is tact that is golden, not silence.»
Author: Samuel Butler
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tact