Yes," said Giannozzo Pucci, laying his hand on Tito's shoulder, " the fact is, Tito mio, you can help us better than if you were Ulysses himself, for I am convinced that Ulysses often made himself disagreeable. To manage men one ought to have a sharp... Writings - Page 87by George Eliot - 1907Full view - About this book
| George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...discretion." " Yes," said Giannozzo Pucci, laying his hand on Tito's shoulder, " the fact is, Tito mio, yon can help us better than if you were Ulysses himself,...safety that you can. There is your scholarship, which msvy always be a pretext for such journeys ; and what is better, there is your tnk'nt, which it would... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...only course for moderate rational men in times of violent party feeling. — Tornabuoni. — o — To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. — Pucci. Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest. — Cei. END OF... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...only course for moderate rational men in times of violent party feeling. — Tornabuoni. — o — To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. — Pucci. Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest. — Cei. END OF... | |
| Baptists - 1875 - 444 pages
...agreeable the man is. Let the slandered take comfort—it is only at fruit trees that thieves throw stones. To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.—Geo. EUott. The life free from care, and from any buffetings of fortune, is a dead sea.—Seneca.... | |
| George Eliot - 1884 - 464 pages
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| Charles Edward Bolton - Anthologies - 1884 - 412 pages
...God. — Hermes. FALSEHOOD and cowardice are things that women highly hold in hate. — Shakespeare. To MANAGE men, one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath. — George Eliot. IF WE wish to know the political and moral condition of a State, we must ask what... | |
| George Eliot - Florence (Italy) - 1885 - 556 pages
..."the fact is, Tito mio, you can help us better than if you were Ulysses himself, for I am convineed that Ulysses often made himself disagreeable. To manage...who could undertake a business like this journey to Gome, for example, with the same safety that you can. There is your scholarship, which may always be... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.13 To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.14 KND OF "ROMOLA." FEL1X HOLT. (161) FELIX HOLT. THERE Is seldom any wrong-doing which does... | |
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