#managed

All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity. ↗

— Plutarch

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