(4 quotes found)
“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds”
David Hume
“The richest soil, if cultivated, produces the rankest weeds”
Plutarch
“As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.”
James Allen
“The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.”
William Shakespeare