fine-managed

Updated: May 12, 2025

You had a more pliant people to govern a people whose minds could be ruled, like a fine-managed horse, with an easy and gentle rein. The fear of shame did more with them than the fear of the knout could do with the Russians. The humanity of your character and the ferocity of mine were equally suitable to the nations over which we reigned.

Baron George Lyttelton Lyttelton - Dialogues of the Dead