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“One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thoug...”
“Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.”
“VespersLittle Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,Droops on the little hands little gold head.Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares!Christopher Robin is saying his prayers.God bless Mummy. I know that's righ...”
“Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing t...”
“King John was not a good man,He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him,For days and days and days.”
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.”
“He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.”
“Well, I've got an idea," said Rabbit, "and here it is. We take Tigger for a long explore, somewhere where he's never been, and we lose him there, and next morning we find him again, and--mark my wo...”
“Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train. I am not inspired; nothing so uncomfortable as that. I am never seized with a sudden idea for a masterpiece, nor form a sudden plan for some new enterp...”
“Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.”
“Get out of my chair, dillhole!”
“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 thin”
“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...”
“Owl," said Rabbit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest--and when I say thinking I mean thinking--you and I must do it.”
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”
“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most i...”
“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbeliefcall it what you willthan any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, mot...”
“He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".”
