"Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers,……" — John Keats

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• They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth. — Unknown Author
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• You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar. — Saint Francis de Sales
• As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth. — Kabir
• Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous. — Claude Levi-Strauss
• In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. — Lucretius
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