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Alan Alexander Milne

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

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

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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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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

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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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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

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

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

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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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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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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

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