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“What I like doing best is Nothing."

"How do you do Nothing," asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.

"Well, it's when people call out at you just as you're going off to do it, 'What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?' and you say, 'Oh, Nothing,' and then you go and do it.

It means just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."

"Oh!" said Pooh.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

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Variant: Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in our hearts.

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

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“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.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Six - "In which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in".
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

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Source: If I May

“So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“But it isn't easy,' said Pooh. 'Because Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

“And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

A.A. Milne quote: “When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.”

“When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.”

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“They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

“His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.”

A.A. Milne book Once on a Time

Source: Once on a Time

“The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet”

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Variant: The things that make me different are the things that make me.

“It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.”

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“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.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

“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.”

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Source: The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

“"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.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

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

“Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

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