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Tact Is One Of The First Of Mental Virtues, The Absence Of Which Is Frequently Fatal To The Best Of Talents. Without Denying That It Is A Talent Of Itself, It Will Suffice If We Admit That It Supplies The Place Of Many Talents.

Our True Acquisitions Lie Only In Our Charities - We Gain Only As We Give.

The Only True Source Of Politeness Is Consideration.

The Only True Source Of Politeness Is Consideration,--that Vigilant Moral Sense Which Never Loses Sight Of The Rights, The Claims, And The Sensibilities Of Others. This Is The One Quality, Over All Others, Necessary To Make A Gentleman.

The Effect Of Character Is Always To Command Consideration. We Sport And Toy And Laugh With Men Or Women Who Have None, But We Never Confide In Them.