A. A. Milne Zitate auf Englisch

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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

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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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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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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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Tiggers don't like honey.

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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

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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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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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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

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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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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

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A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

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Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

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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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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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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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Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

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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 pleasure when we are grown-up.

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