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When a bee is near a flower, it doesn’t sting it. It goes to the flower and uses its mouthparts to extract the sweet nectar from the flower. The bee doesn’t damage the flower in any way. In this same manner, we should treat books.
We should read them, enjoy them and extract their sweetness, but we do not damage them. No matter how much we enjoy a book, we must not take it apart and criticize it for not being what we think a book should be. If we do that, then we’ve lost the very reason that books were created in the first place: to be enjoyed and treasured.
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