Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Warren W. Wiersbe

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If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings

David Sedaris

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Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.

Craig Ferguson

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Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Gretchen Rubin

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I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

Tanith Lee

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Never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact - and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

Harry Truman

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