To seem natural rather than to be natural.
A. A. MILNEIt 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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Think, think, think.
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The hardest part is what to leave behind, It’s time to let go!
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Life is so much friendlier with two.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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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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Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness.
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It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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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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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think.
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What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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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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Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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