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  • The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own.

    "Essays", Book I, Chapter XXV, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 598-600, 1922.