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.
A. A. MILNEIf 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!
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So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
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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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Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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Whenever there comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Tigers don’t like honey.
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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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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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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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War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
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Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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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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