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It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.


Charles A. Garfield

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A. A. MILNE I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE