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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.

Source: In The New Webster's Dictionary of Quotations and Famous Phrases, by Donald Bolander, 1987.
-- William Gilmore Simms, (Apr 17 1806-1870), US novelist; He was generally recongnized as an outstanding Southern novelist.

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