The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them.

—Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh

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About Benjamin Hoff

Benjamin Hoff (born on November 11, 1946) is an American author. He is best known as the author of The Tao of Pooh (1982) and The Te of Piglet (1992). In 2006, he denounced the publishing industry and announced his resignation from book-writing. His book, The Singing Creek Where the...

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

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Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

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When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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