Charles Caleb Colton Quote

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf and teach her to live with men have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering, her.


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


For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her...

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her...

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her...

For all the practical purposes of life, truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a schoolman; and those who release her from her...