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When I was three, my father was three. When I was six, he was six... he needed me to escape from being 50.
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Escape
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I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far afield.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Small Town
Venture
Seldom
Valley
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Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Great Teacher
Mathematician
Great Player
Seldom
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Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.
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Delight
Enough
Mathematics
Needs
Useful
Each
Gives
Seek
Neither
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One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told happened.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Recollection
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My father had always hoped that one day I would be a great cricketer, captaining the Stowe Eleven, perhaps, or even playing for Cambridge.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Cambridge
Great Always Day
Hoped
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My father did not drink beer. He said he didn't like the taste, and I was prepared to accept that I wouldn't like the taste either. So I stuck to bottled cider.
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Beer
Cider
Bottled
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When one is a child, one has little say in the matter: one's parents decide. Mine chose Cotchford, and they chose the various schools I was sent to as I grew up.
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Chose
Mine
Schools
Sent
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So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents that stand out as the events of the day.
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Encounters
Occasional
Together Me Day
Consequently
Nanny
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When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it was with me. I belonged in those days to my mother rather than my father.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Mother Me Father
Belonged
Father Me Way
Mainly
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If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because this is the part of my childhood that I look back upon with the greatest affection.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Affection
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Happily
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The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally useless to me personally, came into its own: it was a wonderful name for writing poetry round.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Poetry Always Me
Christopher
Round
Robin
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My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn't resent this, but I didn't particularly enjoy it, and whenever I could, I withdrew into my own private world.
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Gregarious
Resent
Forced
Individualist
Private World
Withdrew
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Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics?
Christopher Robin Milne /
Algebra
Calculus
Heard
Mountain
Pinnacle
Steps
Branch
Fraction
Mechanics
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War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Noble
Life Love War
Conflicting
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I enjoyed playing with my mother. This was something she was good at. There were plenty of things she couldn't do, had never been taught to do, didn't need to do because there was someone to do them for her, and she certainly couldn't have coped alone with a tiny child.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Tiny
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It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a major scholarship to Trinity College the previous year. Perhaps if there had not been quite so many things to distract me, I might have remained a mathematician.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Cambridge
Mathematician
Scholarship
Trinity
Distract
Previous
Remained
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In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I could offer, it seemed to me, almost, that my father had got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son.
Christopher Robin Milne /
Empty
Infant
Pessimistic
Good Me Father
Talents
Employer
Good Father Me
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