Pooh's Little Instruction Book
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"
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Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
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When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably just a little eleven o'clockish.
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Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and 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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People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
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If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
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You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
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It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.
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Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.