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Charles Caleb Colton: We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals…

We should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

In today’s wordsWe should use a book the way a bee uses a flower: take the sweetness from it without harming it.

Charles Caleb ColtonCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Cassell's Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words, compiled by W. Gurney Benham, 1914

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