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. MILNEWhat ever fortune brings, don’t be afraid of doing things.
More A. A. Milne Quotes
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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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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It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
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Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.
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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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How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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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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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true.
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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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If 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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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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Think, think, think.
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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
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The hardest part is what to leave behind, It’s time to let go!
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The things that make me different are the things that make me.
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To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
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Forever isn’t long at all, as long as I’m with you.
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