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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

A. A. Milne

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A. A. Milne
Age: 74 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 18
Died: 1956
Died: January 31
Author
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Military Officer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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London
England
Alan Alexander Milne
A.A. Milne
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