Quotes of Wight - somelinesforyou

“ IMMODEST, adj. Having a strong sense of one's own merit, coupled with a feeble conception of worth in others. There was once a man in Ispahan Ever and ever so long ago, And he had a head, the phrenologists said, That fitted him for a show. For his modesty's bump was so large a lump That its summit stood far above the wood Of his hair, like a mountain peak… ”