The Sunny Side Quotes

“At any given moment in the last few years there have been ten letters that I absolutely *must* write, thirty which I *ought* to write, and fifty which any other person in my position *would* have written. Probably I have written two. After all, when your profession is writing, you have some excuse for demanding a change of occupation in your leisure hours. No doubt if I were a coal-heaver by day, my wife would see to the fire after dinner while I wrote letters. As it is, she does the correspondence, while I gaze into the fire and think about things.”
― A.A. Milne, The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups

“There, just inside the gates, was Mary. He was only six, but even then he knew that never would he see again anything so beautiful. She was five; but there was something in her manner of holding herself and the imperious tilt of her head which made her seem almost five-and-a-half.

[From John Penquarto A Tale of Literary Life in London ”
― A.A. Milne, The Sunny Side: Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-Ups