It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
A. A. MILNEIt 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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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
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Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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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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A Fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
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Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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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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Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
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It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.
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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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His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.
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Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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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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