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!
A. A. MILNESo perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
More A. A. Milne Quotes
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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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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.
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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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Think, think, think.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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Think it over, think it under.
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A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.
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To seem natural rather than to be natural.
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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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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.
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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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When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
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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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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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Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.
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The best way to write poetry, letting things come.
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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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The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
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The truth is that Fate does not go out of its way to be dramatic.
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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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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
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Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
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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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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.
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