“Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.”
G. K. Chesterton book The Innocence of Father Brown
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“The byproduct is sometimes more valuable than the product.”
Source: Little Essays of Love and Virtue http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15687/15687-h/15687-h.htm (1922), Ch. 3
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