“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”
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A. A. Milne was born in Kilburn, London and went to school at a small independent school run by his father, John Vine Milne. He went to Westminster School and studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was married in 1913, and then joined the British Army in World War I. In 1920, his son, Christopher Robin Milne, was born. In 1925, Milne moved to a country home called Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex. Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne's most famous work, was published in 1926. Although he had his greatest success with his books for children, he stopped writing works for children by the end of the decade, saying that the source of his inspiration for children's stories, his son, had grown older. He continued to write works for adults, although he was frustrated to find that these works were not nearly as popular as his children's books. Milne retired to Cotchford Farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid, and he died in 1956.
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“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”
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“Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.”
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“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
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“Tut, Tut, looks like rain”
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“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
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“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it...”
“Childhood is not the happiest time of one's life, but only to a child is pure happiness possible.”
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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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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.”
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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions...”
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“Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasur...”
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“A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much...”
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“Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.”
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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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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
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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 i...”
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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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“Tiggers don't like honey.”
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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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