If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
A. A. MILNEWhen 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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Tigers don’t like honey.
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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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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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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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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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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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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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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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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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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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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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It’s so much more friendly with two.
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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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Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
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Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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