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• I float like an anchor and sting like a moth.
• The honey is sweet, but the bee has a sting. -- Benjamin Frankli
• Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting. Burmese Proverb
• A slow winter day A night like forever Sink like a stone Float like a feathe
• To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
• The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their live into the sting they give.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• Their discords sting through Burns and Moore, Like hedgehogs dressed in lace.
  -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) -- The Music-Grinde...
• You can't play your friends like marks, kid. -- Henry Gondorf, "The Sting