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Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labour of its fabrication.
Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labour of its fabrication.
Approximate author period: c. 1821 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Thomas Hood
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- Approximate author period: c. 1821 AD · industrial
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Hood. · page_531
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