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Re: guile-vm-0.0
sen_ml@eccosys.com writes:
> From: Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu>
>
> > Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> >
> > > Speak softly and carry a two-sided brain, or something like that... ;-)
> >
> > Is it a proverb? What does it mean?
>
> it could be said to be a take-off on:
>
> "walk softly, but carry a big stick"
>
> or some such ;-) presumably, "be very careful when you do x".
I was thinking of "speak softly and carry a two-handed sword" but I
don't really know to what context this belongs. That is, "Be
powerful, but not aggressive."