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How many a thing which we cast to the ground,
When others pick it up, becomes a gem!

— George Meredith Modern Love (1862)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Compare: "Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed", Alfred Tennyson, The Flower.

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