Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have…

A. A. Milne
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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