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Good grain, though to a field of poorer kind
'Tis given, yet it grows of its own nature
Into a gleaming crop.

— Lucius Accius

Probae etsi in segetem sunt deteriorem datae
fruges, tamen ipsae suapte natura enitent.

Original text (Latin)

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