“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”

About Charles Caleb Colton

Writer • English

Charles Caleb Colton was an English cleric, writer, and art collector renowned for his wit and aphoristic style. He is best known for his work "Lacon, or Many Things in Few Words," a collection of pointed maxims...