CHAPTER XX.
TACT OR COMMON SENSE "Who is stronger than thou ?" asked Braham; and Force replied "Address."-- VICTOR HUGO.
Address makes opportunities; the want of it gives them .-- BOVEE.
He'll suit his bearing to the hour, Laugh, listen, learn, or teach.
ELIZA COOK.
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance, than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition .-- COLTON.
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy .-- ROCHEFOUCAULD.
"Tact clinches the bargain, Sails out of the bay, Gets the vote in the Senate, Spite of Webster or Clay." "I never will surrender to a nigger," said a Confederate officer, when a colored soldier chased and caught him.

"Berry sorry, massa," said the negro, leveling his rifle; "must kill you den; hain't time to go back and git a white man." The officer surrendered.
"When God endowed human beings with brains," says Montesquieu, "he did not intend to guarantee them." When Abraham Lincoln was running for the legislature the first time, on the platform of the improvement of the Sangamon River, he went to secure the votes of thirty men who were cradling a wheatfield.

They asked no questions about internal improvements, but only seemed curious to know whether he had muscle enough to represent them in the legislature.

Lincoln took up a cradle and led the gang around the field.

The whole thirty voted for him.
"I do not know how it is," said Napoleon in surprise to his cook, "but at whatever hour I call for my breakfast my chicken is always ready and always in good condition." This seemed to him the more strange because sometimes he would breakfast at eight and at other times as late as eleven.