Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; th…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.160
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