Bee-ing philosophical

On a Saturday in spring...

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

Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all - A sting and honey and a body small.
--Latin proverb

Birds do it, bees do it,
even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it,
let's fall in love.
--Cole Porter