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The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

Ralph Waldo Euripides

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it, Making it momentany as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion.

William Shakespeare

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 Gillmore Simms

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

Ambrose Bierce

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 Gillmore Simms

One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends. - William Hazlitt,

William Hazlitt

'Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

John Heywood

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are-- Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.

Bernard Berenson

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Edmund Burke

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, . . . thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

Colley Cibber

O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind. And, while they captivate, inform the mind.

William Cowper

Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Ralph Waldo Unknown

She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears, For women shed and use them at their liking; But there is something when man's eye appears Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Rod Serling

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Chuck Norris

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

Aristotle

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.

Roseanne Barr

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