Charles Caleb Colton - We should not be too niggardly in our praise

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words; Addressed to Those Who Think. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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