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"Yes," said Tigger, "they're very good flyers, Tiggers are. Strornry good flyers."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"Nearly eleven o'clock," said Pooh happily. "You're just in time for a little smackerel of something."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"You only blinched inside," said Pooh, "and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
One day when Pooh was thinking, he thought he would go and see Eeyore, because he hadn't seen him since yesterday.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Piglet looked up, and looked away again. And he felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea and be a Sailor, when suddenly he saw something.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"I've got a sort of idea," said Pooh at last, "but I don't suppose it's a very good one."
"I don't suppose it is either," said Eeyore.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"That's what Jagular's always do", said Pooh, much interested. "They call 'Help! Help!' and then when you look up, they'll drop on you."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come".
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
" You know something Pooh. I'm not going to do just nothing anymore."
"You mean never again?"
"Well, not so much. They just don't let you."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
"when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day."
The House at Pooh Corner (1928)