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I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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... and then he and Roo pushed each other about in a friendly way, and Tigger accidentally knocked over one or two chairs by accident, and Roo accidentally knocked over one on purpose, and Kanga said, "Now then, run along."
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How sweet to be a Cloud
Floating in the Blue!
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Suddenly Christopher Robin began to tell Pooh about some of the things: People called Kings and Queens and something called Factors.
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On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.
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I might have known, said Eeyore. After all, one can't complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said 'Bother!'. The Social Round. Always something going on.
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'I don't want him,' said Rabbit. 'But 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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"Lucky we know the forest so well, or we might get lost," said Rabbit half an hour later, and he gave the careless laugh which you give when you know the Forest so well that you can't get lost.
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.
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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 decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.
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So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
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'Pathetic,' he [Eeyore] said. 'That's what it is. Pathetic.'
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So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his nose was in the open again... and then his ears... and then his front paws... and then his shoulders... and then-'Oh, help!' said Pooh, 'I'd better go back,' 'Oh bother!' said Pooh, 'I shall have to go on.' 'I can't do either!' said Pooh, 'Oh help and bother!
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She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.
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And really, it wasn't much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn't share them with somebody.
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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Sydney Smith, or Napoleon or Marcus Aurelius (somebody about that time) said that after ten days any letter would answer itself. You see what he meant.
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Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
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There once was a Dormouse who lived in a bed
Of delphiniums (blue) and geraniums (red),
And all the day long he'd a wonderful view
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).
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"What?" said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.
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A great enormous thing, like — like nothing. A huge big — well, like a — I don't know — like an enormous big nothing.
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Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.
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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 that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.
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He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
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Born:
January 18, 1882
Died:
January 31, 1956
(aged 74)
Bio:
Alan Alexander "A. A." Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems.
Known for:
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
When We Were Very Young (1924)
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Now We Are Six
The Complete Tales of Winnie-The-Pooh
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