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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

A. A. Milne

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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Beneath Bridge Lean Peace River Slip Stand Sudden Watch
It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
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Animal Brave Courage Hard
We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
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Bond Friendship Wait
They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
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Accident Funny
You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think.
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Believe Brave Inspirational Smart Strong Thinking
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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Food Number Possible Spiritual Weather
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Consideration Difference Positive Thinking
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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Forget Tea
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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Song Want
The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.
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Dramatic Fate Truth
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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Chess Grace Impossible
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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Book Invitation People Run Terrible
Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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Animal Listen People Problem
To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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Natural One Liner Reality
War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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Man Mankind War
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Poet Possible Sensible

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