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A. A. Milne
Age: 74 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 18
Died: 1956
Died: January 31
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Alan Alexander Milne
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When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever, So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.
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Wherever I am, there's always Pooh, There's always Pooh and Me. Whatever I do, he wants to do, Where are you going today? says Pooh: Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too. Let's go together, says Pooh, says he. Let's go together, says Pooh.
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What I like doing best is Nothing.
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What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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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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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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I don’t feel very much like Pooh today, said Pooh. There there, said Piglet. I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.
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Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
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His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.
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The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.
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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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If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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A Fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
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The spring has sprung, the grass is rizz. I wonder where them birdies is?
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When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said The what of a what? which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
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It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
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Christopher Robin was home by this time, because it was the afternoon, and he was so glad to see them that they stayed there until very nearly tea-time, and then they had a Very Nearly tea, which is one you forget about afterwards, and hurried on to Pooh Corner, so as to see Eeyore before it was too late to have a Proper Tea with Owl.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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