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.
A. A. MILNEIt 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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Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.
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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
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We’ll be friends until forever, just you wait and see.
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Tigers don’t like honey.
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Some have brains, and some haven’t, and there it is.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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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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War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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Walking with her man, Lost in a dream
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It’s always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don’t.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness.
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To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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Think it over, think it under.
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Doing nothing often leads to the very best of something.
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Brains first and then Hard Work.
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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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When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don’t eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
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You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, And smarter than you think.
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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
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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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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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