"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."

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Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.

— Sarah Fielding