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“It looks like a bothering sort of day.”

“And how are you?", said Winnie-the-Pooh. (…)
"Not very how", he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.”

“But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
Source: Winnie the Pooh

“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.”

“And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

Variant: For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, "Now then, Pooh, time for a little something."”

Source: The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace —
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
They've great big parties inside the grounds.
"I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds",
Says Alice.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Six.

A.A. Milne book When We Were Very Young

When We Were Very Young (1924)

“I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow", Eeyore was saying. "Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of weather.”

“Isn't it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?”

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.”

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“Owl took Christopher Robin's notice from Rabbit and looked at it nervously. He could spell his own name WOL, and he could spell Tuesday so that you knew it wasn't Wednesday, and he could read quite comfortably when you weren't looking over his shoulder and saying "Well?"”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Ten.

“Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.”

all the time, and he could—
Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Five.

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Eight.

“"Shall I look too?" said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter One, opening lines.

“Nearly eleven o'clock," said Pooh happily. "You're just in time for a little smackerel of something.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Two.

“If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter One.

“The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.”

The House at Pooh Corner (1928)