A. A. Milne — a remark

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“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”

A wry hierarchy of independent thought · It's Too Late Now: The Autobiography of a Writer, 1939

About A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne

18 January 1882–31 January 1956

Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London, on 18 January 1882, into a household where education, discipline, and intellectual curiosity were daily realities. He was the youngest of three sons of John Vine Milne and Sarah Marie Heginbotham Milne. His father was the headmaster of Henley House School, a small…

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