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

For a great many, the dunghill has become a natural habitat.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps if reproached with plagiarism, their authors would have made the same answer as Vergil, that they had but picked out the pearls from the dunghill of their predecessors.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)