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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A. A. Milne

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Deserve Effort Liar Name
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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Business Labor Oneself Save Thinking Trouble
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
Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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Bird Born Dare Die Fly Opportunity Rise Swift Time Try Wait Wings
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Poet Possible Sensible
It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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Chess Grace Impossible
Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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Lead Life
It’s so much more friendly with two.
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Friendship One Liner
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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Bother Hear Listen Positive Underestimate Value
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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Always Friendship Relationship Want
I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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Look Lost Sudden Walk
A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
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Friendship Honey Inside Pot
The hardest part is what to leave behind, It’s time to let go!
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Alone Hard Leaving Let Go Time
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
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
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Life Thinking
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
A Fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
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Bird Deep Fly One Liner
Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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Animal Listen People Problem
His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.
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Bond Couple Dress Face
When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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Adventure Boots Happen Pretty Sure
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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Money Want Work Writer
Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.
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Feeling Funny Hard Thinking
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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Forest Going Inspirational Mistake Pieces Step Watch
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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Amateur Chess Desire Gut Poetry
One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.
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Advantage Discover Joy Organization
When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don’t stop and eat it along the way.
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Birthday Carry Friendship Honey Sarcastic
Tigers don’t like honey.
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Honey Motivational One Liner Tiger

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