You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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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A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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Walking with her man, Lost in a dream
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
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Think it over, think it under.
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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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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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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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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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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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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
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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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One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
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