When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
A. A. MILNEIt is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
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The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.
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Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
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If you were a bird, and lived on high, You’d lean on the wind when the wind came by, You’d say to the wind when it took you away: ‘That’s where I wanted to go today!
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Walking with her man, Lost in a dream
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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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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Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
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We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.
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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
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War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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What ever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.
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It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
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It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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