Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
A. A. MILNELet’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.
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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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A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.
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Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
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Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
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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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If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
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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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Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
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Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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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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You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think.
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