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You wouldn't want to be king of my country," I said.
"Why is that?"
"Well, you're rather fat. I doubt you'd fit onto my throne.


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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 When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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