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A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
It is tact that is golden, not silence.
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want.
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secr ...
I sympathize, I know just how it feels
To think of the right thing to say too late.
Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to chec ...
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
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