Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Time for something sweet. I can go right down to the end of the town and be back in time for tea! You mustn't go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me. 'I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds', They've great big parties inside the grounds.

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace.

War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940).

I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.

Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

On the Chanak Crisis 'Another Little War', The Daily News (4 October 1922), quoted in P.

But you may also think, as I do, of those five or ten or twenty men, our chosen statesmen, sitting round a table the same old statesmen each with his war memories thick upon him each knowing his own utter incompetence to maintain a war or to end a war. Of course you can think of it like that, and it sounds quite dignified and natural.

What an incredible joke! A war 'to defend the freedom of the Straits and the sanctity of our graves in Gallipoli', says Punch magnificently.

They have almost brought it off, the War to End Peace, for which they have been striving for three years.

When we were very young now we are six