Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
A. A. MILNEChess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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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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If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.
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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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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.
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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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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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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.
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Tigers don’t like honey.
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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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The best way to write poetry, letting things come.
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When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
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Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.
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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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A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.
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It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.
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Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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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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I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
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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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Forever isn’t long at all, as long as I’m with you.
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