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Both sorts of bee (i.e. bee and wasp) draw nourishment from one place but from this comes the sting and from that other the honey.
Both sort of deer feed on the same grass and water; by this only dung is produced, by that pure musk.
Both reeds (the common reed and the sugar-cane) are fed from one source; this one is hollow, while that one is full of sugar.

— Rumi Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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