When I first saw this Father's Day card, I was immediately suspicious of the quote. However, it turns out I was completely wrong. Shows what I know. Yes, this is a quote from Milne's "The House at Pooh Corner" (1928), albeit with some liberties taken. The full quote (from Chapter 6) being: "Christopher Robin came down from the Forest to the bridge, feeling all sunny and careless, and just as if twice nineteen didn't matter a bit, as it didn't on such a happy afternoon, and he thought that if he stood on the bottom rail of the bridge, and leant over, and watched the river slipping slowly away beneath him, then he would suddenly know everything that there was to be known, and he would be able to tell Pooh, who wasn't quite sure about some of it." Beautiful.
Correct! (...at least the second part.) From the beginning of Chapter 6 in "The House at Pooh Corner" (1928) the full quote is: By the time it came to the edge of the Forest the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no hurry. We shall get there some day." But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
A game of Poohsticks ensues. Hooray! Tiny writing and a completely correct quotation on fingernails. From chapter 8 of the original Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) in which "Christopher Robin leads an expotition to the north pole", this is Eeyore's passive aggressive way of encouraging folk not to sit on thistles because it ruins the taste for others. The full quote: "A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference."
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