A. A. Milne

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess.

— A. A. Milne

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

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How long does getting thin take?

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Brains first and then Hard Work.

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Time for a little something.

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Sing Ho for the Life of a Bear

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What I like doing best is Nothing.

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Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

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The things that make me different are the things that make me.

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“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.”

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Why does a silly bird go on saying "chiff-chaff" all day long? Is it happiness or hiccups?

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

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Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

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The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

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Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.

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I suppose this is the reason why diaries are so rarely kept nowadays- that nothing ever happens to anybody.

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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…

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Bouncy trouncy flouncy pouncy fun fun fun fun fun. The most wonderful thing about tiggers is I'm the only one!

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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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When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up…

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It 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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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know…

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Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had…

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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and…

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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written.…

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Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew…

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Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh. "Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning, which I doubt," said…

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Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had…

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Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read…

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“Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train. I am not inspired; nothing so uncomfortable as that. I am never…

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“For myself I have now no faith in miraculous conception. I have given it every chance. I have spent many mornings at…

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Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure…

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One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows.

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I just wanted to be sure of you.

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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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"I just like to know," said Pooh humbly.

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