English - Author | January 18, 1882 - January 31, 1956
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. Milne
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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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.
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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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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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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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Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.
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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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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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