foliophagous

Updated: August 4, 2026

Call to mind, I pray you, my foliophagous friend, what was the extent of Michael Montaigne's library; and that if you had passed a winter in his chateau you must, with that appetite of yours, have but yourself upon short allowance there. Historical knowledge is not the first thing needful for a statesman, nor the second. And yet do not hastily conclude that I am about to disparage its importance.

Robert Southey - Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society