"As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious."

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Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

— Walter Savage Landor