 Talent is power, tact is skill ; talent is weight, tact is momentum ; talent knows what to do, tact knows how to do it; talent makes a man respectable, tact will make him respected; talent is wealth, tact is ready money.  The Ohio Journal of Education - Page 3481854Full view - About this book
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...makes a man respectable : Tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth : Tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, Tact carries it against Talent ten to one. Take them to the theatre, and put them against each other on the stage, and Talent shall produce you... | |
 | 1834 - 604 pages
...makes a man respectable : Tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth : Tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, Tact carries it against Talent ten to one. Take them to the theatre, and put them against each other on the stage, and Talent shall produce you... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...man respectable — tact will make him respected : talent is wealth— tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent — ten to one. Take them to the theatre, and put them against each other on the stage, and talent shall produce you... | |
 | David Holt - Educational literature - 1839 - 304 pages
...a man respectable — tact makes him respected ; talent is wealth — tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent ten to one. Talent is fit for employment, but tact is fittest, for it has a knack of slipping into place, with... | |
 | 1847 - 446 pages
...makes a man respectable ; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth ; tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent ten to one. Take them to the theatre, and put them against each other on the stage, and talent shall produce you... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 884 pages
...makes a man respectable; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth; tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent ten to one. Take them to the theatre, and put them against each other on the stage, anil talent shall produce you... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pages
...man respectable — tact will make him respected ; talent is wealth — tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent — ten to one. SCIENTIFIC RECREATIONS FOR CHRISTMAS TIME. I. THE MAGIC LANTERN AND DISSOLVINO VIEWS. The Magic-Lantern,... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - Readers (Secondary) - 1854 - 406 pages
...makes a man respectable; tact will make him respected. Talent is wealth ; tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life, tact carries it against talent ten to one. 2. Talent will produce you a tragedy that will scarcely live long enough to be condemned, while tact... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...talent ten to one. + farces. There is no want of + dramatic talent, there is no want of dramatic tact; but they are seldom together: so we have successful...respectable, and respectable pieces which are not successful. 4. Take them to the bar, and let them shake their learned curls at each other in legal + riva!ry ;... | |
 | Horace Smith - English wit and humor - 1859 - 282 pages
...makes a man respectable—tact will make him respected: talent is wealth—tact is ready money. For all the practical purposes of life tact carries it against talent— ten to one. Take them to the theatre, and pit them against each other on the stage, and talent shall produce you... | |
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