“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.”

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

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

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