A. A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

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"You only blinched inside," said Pooh, "and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is."

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One day when Pooh was thinking, he thought he would go and see Eeyore, because he hadn't seen him since yesterday.

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"I've got a sort of idea," said Pooh at last, "but I don't suppose it's a very good one."
"I don't suppose it is either," said Eeyore.

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"I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow", Eeyore was saying. "Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of wheather."

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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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"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

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WHERE did you say it was?' asked Pooh. Just here,' said Eeyore. Made of sticks?' Yes' Oh!' said Piglet. What?' said Eeyore. I just said "Oh!"' said Piglet nervously. And so as to seem quite at ease he hummed Tiddely-pom once or twice in a what-shall-we-do-now kind of way.

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"Yes," said Tigger, "they're very good flyers, Tiggers are. Strornry good flyers."

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"I'm not going to do nothing anymore."
"Never again?"
"Well, not so much. They don't let you."

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