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Book 3 · Preservation

Bread is honey’s greatest enemy.

Honey has no particular preservative, except that it must be protected from its enemy. Bread is its greatest enemy. If even a little bread made from spelt is thrown or falls into it, all the honey turns into ants and is entirely lost.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things · Attributed to Paracelsus

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