“Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work; I merely inflict myself upon the public.”
Robert Morley (1908–1992) English actor
Films and Filming vol. 8 (1961)
“The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.”
As quoted in Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations) (2005) by M. P. Singh, p. 141
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