• Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet 1809-1894
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. disagreeable
2. authorizes
3. intimates
4. necessary
5. courtesy
6. become

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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