Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. - Samuel Butler

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Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

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About Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

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