1895 Mixed Drinks by Herbert W Green

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MIXED DRINKS.

frugality, politeness, gentleness, modesty, affibility, and last in mention, but first in importance. Tact. Talent is a very fine thing, but tact is much better. It is almost indispensable. It is not the undiscovered sixth sense, which philosophers have been searching for, but it is really the life of all the five senses. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the discriminating taste, the keen smell, the sensitive touch,the peculiar skill or faculty, the nice perception,the ready power of appre ciating and doing the right thing at the right time and iu the right place, as required by circumstances. It is the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles, and is alike useful in all places. The Tin Trumpet, published in London the latter part of 1700,says substantially that "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. For all practical pur poses of life tact carries it against talent ten to one. At the bar talent receives compliments,but tact gets clients and fees. * * * Talent makes the world wonder that it gets on no faster; tact excites astonish ment that it gets on so fast. The secret is that it has