“A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.”
Mary Wollstonecraft book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 7
“It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work — the night watchman.”
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)
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