A. A. Milne
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"Alan Alexander Milne" was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

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

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.

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

We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.

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

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?""What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?""I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully."It's the same thing," he said.

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.

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.

'How long does getting thin take?' Pooh asked anxiously.

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