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

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. – James Russell Lowell

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One swallow will not make spring, nor one bee honey. – Proverb

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

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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. – Emily Dickinson

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