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A. A. Milne
Age: 74 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 18
Died: 1956
Died: January 31
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Time is swift, it races by Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
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Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
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I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer.
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I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.
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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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This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
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