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Today we celebrate the life of A. A. Milne, beloved author and creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Although renowned every bit a novelist and playwright during his ain lifetime, his children'southward stories—inspired past his son, Christopher Robin—accept become Milne's enduring legacy. Illustrated past Ernest H. Shepard, his story collectionsWinnie-the-Pooh(1926) andThe Firm at Pooh Corner(1928)—not to mention his verse collectionsWhen We Were Very Immature(1924) andNow We Are Half-dozen(1927)—have get indispensable children's classics.

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winnie_the_pooh_milne The character Winnie-the-Pooh first diverged into the "archetype" version (illustrated by Shepard) and the "Disney" version (illustrated past Stephen Slesinger) when Milne sold the rights to Slesinger in 1930. However, it wasn't until 1961 that Milne'due south widow sold the rights to Disney. It was in the 1960s that the Disney marketing machine cranked into gear, creating toys, films, television, and books that were inspired by Milne'south work merely often quite different.

For example, the near widely shared Winnie-the-Pooh quote ("If y'all live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus ane day, and so I never have to live without you lot.") was not written by Milne. The aforementioned is true for many other oft-cited Winnie-the-Pooh quotes, including, "Promise me yous'll always recall: yous're braver than yous believe, and stronger than y'all seem, and smarter than you lot think."

Take a moment to gloat the true Winnie-the-Pooh with the following quotes written by A. A. Milne:

"Christopher Robin came down from the Forest to the bridge, feeling all sunny and devil-may-care, and just as if twice nineteen didn't matter a chip, as it didn't on such a happy afternoon, and he thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the span, and leant over, and watched the river slipping slowly away beneath him, then he would all of a sudden know everything that at that place was to exist known, and he would be able to tell Pooh, who wasn't quite certain about some of information technology."
"'This Writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Lightheaded stuff. Nothing in it.'" (Eeyore)
"Pooh began to experience a fiddling more comfortable, because when you are a Carry of Very Little Brain, and you lot Think of Things, yous notice sometimes that a Matter which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
"'I think,' said Christopher Robin, 'that we ought to swallow all our Provisions now, so that we shan't have so much to carry.'"
"It is ever useful to know where a friend-and-relationis, whether you want him or whether you don't." (Rabbit)
"Pooh tried to call back of something he would say, only the more he thought, the more he felt that in that locationis no real reply to "Ho-ho!" said by a Heffalump in the sort of voice this Heffalump was going to say it in."
"They're funny things, Accidents. Yous never have them till you're having them." (Eeyore)
"'Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?'" (Pooh)
"'Hallo!' said Tigger. 'I've establish somebody just like me. I idea I was the only one of them.'"
"'I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.'"
"Poesy and Hums aren't things which yous become, they're things which get yous. And all you can do is to become where they tin find you." (Pooh)
"'A piffling Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the deviation.'" (Eeyore)
"'An deadfall,' said Owl, 'is a sort of Surprise'
'So is a gorse-bush sometimes,' said Pooh."
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nix," said Piglet, taking Pooh'south paw. "I just wanted to exist sure of you."
"'I wasn't afraid,' said Pooh, said he,
'I'1000never agape with you.'
And then wherever I am, in that location'due south always Pooh,
There'south e'er Pooh and Me."
"'Pooh, promise you won't forget nearly me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.'
Pooh idea for a little.
'How old shall I be so?'
'Ninety-ix.'
Pooh nodded.
'I promise,' he said."
"So they went off together. But wherever they become, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted identify on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear volition e'er exist playing."