“If
you wish in this world to advance,
Your
merits you're bound to enhance;
You
must stir it and stump it,
And
blow your own trumpet,
Or
trust me, you haven't a chance!” —English dramatist,
poet, illustrator, and most of all, librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911), “My Boy, You May Take It From Me," Ruddigore: or The Witch's Curse, music
by Arthur Sullivan (1887)
As
far as I’m concerned, these words have been taken way too much to
heart—especially on the road from reality TV to Washington, DC, by a certain
orange-haired vulgarian.
(Pictured:
W.S. Gilbert)
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