Charles Caleb Colton Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1780 - 1832
Birthday: 1780
Death: 1832
When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too apt to give him credit for universality of genius, and to anticipate for him success in all that he undertakes.
source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.181
topic: Men, Giving, Genius, Universality
