A. A. Milne Quotes
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If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
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The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?
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I have been Foolish and Deluded, and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.
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I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see
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It looks like a bothering sort of day.
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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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Come, come, come. Without a monster or two it's not a quest, merely a gaggle of friends wandering about.
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Life is so much friendlier with two.
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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
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How long does getting thin take?
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Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear
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Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.
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Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
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The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
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Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
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There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.
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By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
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Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.
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