A. A. Milne Quotes

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It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

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

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'Pathetic,' he [Eeyore] said. 'That's what it is. Pathetic.'

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Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

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"Hello Rabbit, is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't", said Rabbit, "and see what happens."

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"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

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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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You gave me Christopher Robin, and then You breathed new life in Pooh. Whatever of each has left my pen Goes homing back to you. My book is ready, and comes to greet The mother it longs to see — It would be my present to you, my sweet, If it weren't your gift to me.

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Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply,
Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.

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But after all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow.
Eeyore speaking

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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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"Hallo" said Piglet, "What are you doing?" "Tracking something" said Winnie-the Pooh very mysteriously. "Tracking what?" said Piglet, coming closer. "That's just what I ask myself. I ask myself, What?"

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(Weasels, Stoats, and Ferrets, together:) Toad! Toad! Down with Toad! Down with the popular, successful Toad!

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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

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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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"Tracks," said Piglet. "Paw-marks." He gave a little squeak of excitement. "Oh, Pooh! Do you think it's a — a — a Woozle?" "It may be," said Pooh. "sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. You can never tell with paw-marks."

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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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He learns. He becomes educated... He instigorates knowledge.

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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 handkerchiefs to blow their noses,
And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

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And then, as Pooh seemed disappointed, he added quickly, "but it's grander than Factors."

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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!

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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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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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If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on water as blue as air, And you'd see me here in the fields and say: 'Doesn't the sky look green today?

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Statistics is not the easiest subject to teach, and there are those to whom anything savoring of mathematics is regarded as forever anathema.

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"Oh!" said Pooh again. "What is the North Pole?" he asked. "It's just a thing you discover," said Christopher Robin carelessly, not being quite sure himself.

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"Pooh, promise you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred."
Pooh thought for a little.
"How old should I be then?"
"Ninety-nine."
Pooh nodded.
"I promise," he said.

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Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the bread, please."

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I have a house where I go,
When there's too many people,
I have a house where I go
Where no one can be;
I have a house where I go,
Where nobody ever says "no"
Where no one says anything - so
There is no one but me.

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"That's what Jagulars always do", said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they drop on you."

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