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.
A. A. MILNEGolf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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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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Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.
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Brains first and then Hard Work.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness.
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When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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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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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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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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You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.
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