Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather...

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

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British priest and writer

January 1st, 1780 - January 1st, 1832