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Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them. – James Ellis, quoted in Edge-Tools of Speech by Maturin M. Ballou, 1899

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Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. – Robert Ingersoll

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If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. – Maurice Maeterlinck

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Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it. – John Muir

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