“It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.”
Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
The Salt-Cellars http://books.google.com/books?id=CmAUAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+needs+more+skill+than+I+can+tell+To+play+the+second+fiddle+well%22&pg=PA284#v=onepage (1885)