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Taciturnity . Learn taciturnity; let that be your motto. {Burns.}
Taciturnity . One learns taciturnity best among those people {Jean Paul.}
Tact . If it requires great tact to know how to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent. - S'il y a beaucoup d'art à savoir parler à propos, {La Rochefoucauld.}
Tact . Perseverance and tact are the two great {Disraeli.}
Tact . Skill; tact. - Savoir-faire {}
Tact . Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best talents. It supplies the place of many talents. {Simms.}
Tact . Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. {W. P. Scargill.}
Tact . The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them. {J. G. Holland.}
Tact . Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact {I. Disraeli.}
Taking . Begging the question, or taking for granted the point at issue ( a circle in the proof). - Circulus in probando {lit.}
 
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Lepidosauria : n. pl. A division of reptiles, including the serpents and lizards; the Plagiotremata.

 
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