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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Friendship is a very comforting thing to have.
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Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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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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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.
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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 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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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 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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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
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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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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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Tigers don’t like honey.
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Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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