A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNEI knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
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Brains first and then Hard Work.
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Think it over, think it under.
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Promise you won’t forget me, ever. Not even when I’m a hundred.
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Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.
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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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It is hard to be brave, when you’re only a very small animal.
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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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When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.
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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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We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.
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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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They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.
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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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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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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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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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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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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
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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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If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.
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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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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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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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How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
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