One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
¶ (Attributed)
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A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
¶ (Winnie the Pooh)
"What would I do?" I said to Pooh,
"If it wasn't for you," and Pooh said: "True,
It isn't much fun for One, but Two
Can stick together," says Pooh, says he.
"That's how it is," says Pooh.
¶ Now We Are Six
But now I am Six, I'm as clever as clever.
So I think I'll be six now for ever and ever.
¶ Now We are Six, "The End"
Pooh knew what he meant, but, being a Bear of Very Little Brain, couldn't think of the words.
¶ The House At Pooh Corner
"Rabbit's clever," said Pooh.
"Yes," said Piglet. "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has a Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has a Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that's why he never understands anything."
¶ The House At Pooh Corner
"Rabbit," said Pooh to himself. "I like talking to Rabbit. He talks about sensible things. He doesn't use long, difficult words, like Owl. He uses short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?' and 'Help yourself, Pooh.'"
¶ The House At Pooh Corner
"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."
¶ The House at Pooh Corner
They walked on, thinking of This and That, and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap, which is sixty-something trees in a circle; and Christopher Robin knew it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four.
¶ The House at Pooh Corner
Written down, it doesn't seem a very good song, but coming through pale fawn fluff at about half-past eleven on a very sunny morning, it seemed to Pooh to be one of the best songs he had ever sung. So he went on singing it.
¶ The House at Pooh Corner
Pooh wondered if being a faithful Knight meant that you just went on being faithful without being told things.
¶ The House at Pooh Corner
The next moment the day became very bothering indeed, because Pooh was so busy not looking where he was going that he stepped on a piece of the Forest which had been left out by mistake.
¶ The House at Pooh Corner
"Eeyore, what are you doing there?" said Rabbit.
"I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak-tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer."
¶ The House at Pooh Corner
"Good morning, Eeyore," said Pooh.
"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.
¶ Winnie-the-Pooh
"Look at me jumping" squeaked Roo, and fell into another mouse-hole.
¶ Winnie-the-Pooh
"I have been Foolish and Deluded," said Pooh, "and I am a Bear of No Brain at All."
"You're the Best Bear in All the World," said Christopher Robin soothingly.
¶ Winnie-the-Pooh
Kanga said to Roo, "Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards." So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once … and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.
¶ Winnie-the-Pooh
"Hallo, are you stuck?"
"N-no," said Pooh carelessly. "Just resting and thinking and humming to myself."
¶ Winnie-the-Pooh
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh, 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.
¶ Winnie-the-Pooh
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