When We Were Very Young quotes
The lines readers remember from When We Were Very Young, by A. A. Milne.
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It’s ever so portant how you walk.
“Is this the way to Round-the-World?”
Where am I going? I don’t quite know.
“It’s awful fun to be born at all.”
“There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.”
They’ve all got tails but me.
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Buckingham Palace
“Do you think the King knows all about me?”
Lines and Squares
It’s ever so portant how you walk.
Brownie
Brownies never wait to say, “How do you do?”
Independence
It’s no good saying it. They don’t understand.
Nursery Chairs
“Is this the way to Round-the-World?”
Spring Morning
Where am I going? I don’t quite know.
“Doesn’t the sky look green to-day?”
“It’s awful fun to be born at all.”
What does it matter where people go?
The Island
“There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.”
At the Zoo
You can’t shake hands with a mingo—he doesn’t like shaking hands.
Knights and Ladies
Perhaps I might. You never know.
In the Fashion
They’ve all got tails but me.
Vespers
The cold’s so cold, and the hot’s so hot.
Oh! Now I remember it. God bless Me.
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