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Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

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Book, Comfort, Bears

1926 Pooh, stuck in the entrance to Rabbit's house after eating too much honey. Winnie-the-Pooh, ch.2.

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That's right," said Eeyore. "Sing. Umty-tiddly, umty-too. Here we go gathering Nuts and May. Enjoy yourself." "I am," said Pooh.

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Nuts, Gathering, May

A. A. Milne (1993). “Eeyore has a birthday”, Dutton Childrens Books

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It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

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Sight, Justice, Tails

A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.117, Egmont UK

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Tiggers don't like honey.

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Honey, Tigger

House at Pooh Corner (1928) ch. 2

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I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

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Forgotten, Winnie The Pooh Book, Pooh Bear Friend

A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.93, Egmont UK

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To seem natural rather than to be natural.

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Natural, Seems

A. A. Milne (2012). “The Sunny Side”, p.55, The Floating Press

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I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

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Life, Littles, Bread

A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.72, Egmont UK

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When I was young, we always had mornings like this.

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Morning, Young

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Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning-of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with their specially blended tobacco, of filling the one so chosen, of lighting it, of taking it from the mouth to gaze lovingly at the white spot and thus letting it go out, of lighting it again and letting it go out again, of polishing it up with their own special polisher and putting it to bed, and then the pleasure of beginning all over again with another white-spotted one.

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School, Men, White

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The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.

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Children, Fun, Writing

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Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.

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Gone, Busy

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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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Sorry, Air, Missing

A. A. Milne (1997). “Pooh's Bedtime Book”, Putnam Juvenile

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It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.

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Winning, Men, Games

1919 Not That It Matters.

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I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

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Names, Littles, Found

A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.57, Egmont UK

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Drinking your milk and talking at the same time may result in your having to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwords.

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Drinking, Talking, Long

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Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

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Doors, Piglet, Letters

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I have a house where I go,
When there's too many people,
I have a house where I go
Where no one can be;
I have a house where I go,
Where nobody ever says "no"
Where no one says anything - so
There is no one but me.

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People, House, Say Anything

A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.9, Egmont UK

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Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

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Dream, Men, Lost

A. A. Milne (2011). “Now We Are Six”, p.37, Egmont UK

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It was a drowsy summer afternoon, and the Forest was full of gentle sounds, which all seemed to be saying to Pooh, 'Don't listen to Rabbit, listen to me.' So he got in a comfortable position for not listening to Rabbit.

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Summer, Listening, Sound

A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.87, Egmont UK

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And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea: “There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.

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Sea, World, Made

A. A. Milne (2011). “When We Were Very Young”, p.50, Egmont UK

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Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly.

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Brain, Rabbits, Said

A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.74, Egmont UK

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They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.

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Writing, Way, Pounds

A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.29, Egmont UK

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He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

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Animal, Violet, Bunch

A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.69, Egmont UK

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When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.

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Friendship, Trying, Doorways

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Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

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House, Robins, Stories

A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.18, Egmont UK

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Born: January 18, 1882
Died: January 31, 1956
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