Monday, August 10, 2009

Good nature . . .

. . . like the bee, collects its honey from every herb. Ill nature, like a spider, sucks poisen from the sweetest flower.

– Published in the Stark County News, Toulon, Illinois, Thursday, June 18, 1863; Original Source: H. A. Downing, Anecdotes for the Family, Or, Lessons of Truth and Duty for Every-day Life, Case, Lockwod & Co., Hartford, CT, © 1862, p. 223

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