“ The fittest man for a particular post is not always the best fellow or the most agreeable. ”
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872). copy citation
| Author | George Eliot |
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| Source | Middlemarch |
| Topic | good |
| Date | 1872 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/145/145-h/145-h.htm |
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““You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr. Lydgate?”
“I know little of either,” said Lydgate; “but in general, appointments are apt to be made too much a question of personal liking. The fittest man for a particular post is not always the best fellow or the most agreeable. Sometimes, if you wanted to get a reform, your only way would be to pension off the good fellows whom everybody is fond of, and put them out of the question.”
Dr. Sprague, who was considered the physician of most”
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