dunghill

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He once described himself to one of his children as “a machine condemned to devour books and then throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

Jefferson said the work was like extracting diamonds from a dunghill.

From Salon • May 31, 2012

Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment on the Bard: "A few pearls on a dunghill."

From Time Magazine Archive

There was an old Roman senator who said: 'A cock crows best on his own dunghill.'

From Time Magazine Archive

The very flower that we stoop to smell Grows from a dunghill, look but in its roots, And what obscene and hideous blind life Goes teeming; sickened then we shrink aback From rose's velvet petals.

From The Deluge and Other Poems by Presland, John