These are all methods of undervaluing the thing by comparison; for it is not familiarity but comparison that breeds contempt.
And all such captious comparisons are ultimately based on the strange and staggering heresy that a human being has a right to dandelions; that in some extraordinary fashion we can demand the very pick of all the dandelions in the garden of Paradise; that we owe no thanks for them at all and need feel no wonder at them at all; and above all no wonder at being thought worthy to receive them.
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(“The God with the Golden Key,” Autobiography)
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