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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
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Bees are sometimes drowned (or suffocated) in the honey which they collect. So some writers are lost in their collected learning.
        Hawthorne.—American Note-Books. (1842.)		  1
And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.
        Holmes.—The Height of the Ridiculous.		  2
The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.
        Washington Irving.—Tales of a Traveller: The poor-devil Author.		  3
Look, then, into thine heart and write.
        Longfellow.—Voices of the Night: Prelude.		  4
 
 
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