Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise t… - Charles Caleb Colton

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Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Charles Caleb Colton (baptized 11 December 1777 - 28 April 1832) was a British author, clergyman, and art collector.

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Alternative Names: Charles Colton • Çarez Kaleb Kolton • C. C. Colton

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

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

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