The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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About A. A. Milne

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Alan Alexander Milne ( ; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as children's poetry. Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed his previous work. He served as a...

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For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

—John Corey Whaley in Noggin

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An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply.

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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

—George Bernard Shaw

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