Charles Caleb Colton Quote

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)


It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer ...

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer ...

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer ...

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer ...