So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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More A. A. Milne Quotes
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To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.
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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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When late morning rolls around and you’re feeling a bit out of sorts, don’t worry; you’re probably just a little eleven o’clockish.
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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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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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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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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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A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
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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 day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.
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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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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Brains first and then Hard Work.
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