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“What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Meditations. vi. 54.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- db50f402729ffc3116841e6ca0a33fb4ece87780eed70c55e0d222b303fe6545
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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