Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.
A. A. MILNESomething feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
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Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
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I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true.
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.
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Think, think, think.
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Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.
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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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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.
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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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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
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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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Walking with her man, Lost in a dream
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It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.
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Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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Friendship is a very comforting thing to have.
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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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Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
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A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
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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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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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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.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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