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We also, ought to copy the bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading, for such things are better preserved if they are kept separate - Seneca

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“We also, ought to copy the bees, and sift whatever we have gathered from a varied course of reading, for such things are better preserved if they are kept separate; then, by applying the supervising care with which our nature has endowed us … we could so blend those several flavors into one delicious compound that, even though it betrays its origin, yet it nevertheless is clearly a different thing from that whence it came.”

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The first-century Roman philosopher Seneca advised readers to mimic bees, who gather nectar across wide fields of flowers, pack it away, and then transform it into their own creation.

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The Idea Machine - How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future - Joel Miller