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Quote by John Muir
Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do

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

Other quotes by John Muir

Keep close to Natures heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. – Abraham Lincoln

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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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Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. – Scottish proverb

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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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