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Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

Source: Speech on agriculture, Boston, Massachusetts, Oct 1855.
-- Edward Everett, (Apr 11 1794-1865), US statesman, orator; He is remembered ironically for delivering the main speech preceding President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863; pres. Harvard U., 1846-49.

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