A. A. Milne on accident
A. A. Milne104 quotes“They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.”
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Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne 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. MilneA. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne Think, think, think.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne The things that make me different are the things that make me.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne 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.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MilneA. A. Milne It’s always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don’t.
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