One of the advantages of being disorganized is that one is always having surprising discoveries.
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A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery.
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A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
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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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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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I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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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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Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.
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You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
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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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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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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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Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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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 you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
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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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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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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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Whenever there comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.
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Organization is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it’s not all mixed up.
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You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think.
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Think, think, think.
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What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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