“"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.”

—  A.A. Milne, book The House at Pooh Corner

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

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