Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.
A. A. MILNEA writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
More A. A. Milne Quotes
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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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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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I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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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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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 hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
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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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Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.
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Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Washing, this modern behind the ears nonsense.
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Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.
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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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A Fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.
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I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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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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When 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 pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.
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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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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.
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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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I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true.
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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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