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!
A. A. MILNEIf 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!
A. A. MILNEGood judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.
A. A. MILNETo seem natural rather than to be natural.
A. A. MILNEShe would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
A. A. MILNEIt is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
A. A. MILNEA quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
A. A. MILNEA bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A. A. MILNEWhen having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
A. A. MILNEHow sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
A. A. MILNELife is so much friendlier with two.
A. A. MILNEBe sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
A. A. MILNESo perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
A. A. MILNEWhen you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
A. A. MILNEI’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
A. A. MILNEIt’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.
A. A. MILNEPay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
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