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Winnie-the-Pooh

Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne

Winnie-the-Pooh is the first volume of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne and illustrated by E. H. Shepard. The book focuses on the adventures of a teddy bear called Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, a small toy pig; Eeyore, a toy donkey; Owl, a live owl; and Rabbit, a live rabbit. The characters of Kanga, a toy kangaroo, and her son Roo are introduced later in the book, in the chapter entitled "In Which Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest and Piglet has a Bath". The bouncy toy-tiger character of Tigger is not introduced until the sequel, The House at Pooh Corner.

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“Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly.”

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“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”

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Variant: How sweet to be a cloud
Floating in the blue.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

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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.”

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Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Six - "In which Pooh invents a new game and Eeyore joins in".
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“He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn’t quite reach the honey.”

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“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.”

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Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
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“And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.”

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

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

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

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

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

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“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.”

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

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“"H– hup!" said Roo accidentally.
"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully.
"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised.”

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

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“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.”

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“Kanga said to Roo, "Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards." So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once… and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.”

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

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“Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply,
Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.”

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“"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee."
Then he thought another long time, and said: "And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey."
And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.”

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

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“"Good morning, Pooh Bear", said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning", he said. "Which I doubt", said he.”

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“Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the bread, please."”

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

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“It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.”

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

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“"I'm giving this to Eeyore," he explained, "as a present. What are you going to give?"
"Couldn't I give it too?" said Piglet. "From both of us?"
"No," said Pooh. "That would not be a good plan."”

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

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“These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST.”

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