"Ideas may drift into other minds, but they……" — A A Milne
"Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere."
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A A Milne
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218 Quotes by A A Milne
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