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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
Kenneth Grahame
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Kenneth Grahame
Age: 73 †
Born: 1859
Born: March 8
Died: 1932
Died: July 6
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We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry-- cried the Mole. --with out pistols and swords and sticks-- shouted ther Rat. --and rush in upon them, said Badger. --and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em! cried the Toad in ecstasy, running round and round the room, and jupming over the chairs.
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Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!
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It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.
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The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.
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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
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It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
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As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.
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The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.
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Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
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The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.
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The past was like a bad dream the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!
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There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out
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Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.
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Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
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He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.
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It'll be all right, my fine fellow, said the Otter. I'm coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold and if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.
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Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.
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You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!
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