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!
A. A. MILNEDoing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
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You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think.
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The best way to write poetry, letting things come.
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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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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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.
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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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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.
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Think it over, think it under.
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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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Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness.
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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