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You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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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'm giving this to Eeyore,' he explained, 'as a present. What are you going to give?' 'Couldn't I give it too?' said Piglet. 'From both of us?' 'No,' said Pooh. 'That would not be a good plan.'
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Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.
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The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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'I don't see much sense in that,' said Rabbit.'No,' said Pooh humbly, 'there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.'
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'It's a little Anxious,' he said to himself, 'to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.'
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'I have been Foolish and Deluded,' said he, 'and I am a Bear of No Brain at All.'
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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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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Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.
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And if anyone knows anything about anything," said Bear to himself, "it's Owl who knows something about something," he said, "or my name's not Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "which it is," he added. "so there you are.
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Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
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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 weather.'
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There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.
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Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.
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Kanga said to Roo, 'Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards.' So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once . . . and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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