Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Bessie Anderson Stanley

Born: 1879
Died: 1952 (aged 73)
Bio: Bessie Anderson Stanley was an American writer, the author of the poem Success, which is often incorrectly attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson or Robert Louis Stevenson.