Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
A. A. MILNEThe truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.
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It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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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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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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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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Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
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Tigers don’t like honey.
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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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The things that make me different are the things that make me.
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Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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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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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.
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I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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