To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. Charles Caleb Colton

Quotes November 23, 2008

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
Ability
Quotations by Charles Caleb Colton

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