“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.”

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

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

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