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Show The Mystery of Tact. Many frankly admit that they are not very tactful who would not be so ready to admit that they are very selfish. But it has been said with searching truthfulness that "Want of tact is at bottom selfishness, for self thinks and acts only for itself." No one whose supreme purpose and interest in-terest in life is to live for others can long be tactless. For tactlessness is simply the failure to think sufficiently about others to enable us to touch them in a helpful way, a considerate way, a sympathetic way. And the person per-son who won't take the time and trouble necessary to this thoughtful-ness thoughtful-ness is selfish, and therefore tactless. The next time we find that we have been lacking in tact, let us ask ourselves our-selves what particular piece of selfishness selfish-ness caused the failure. |