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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.
Kenneth Grahame
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Kenneth Grahame
Age: 73 †
Born: 1859
Born: March 8
Died: 1932
Died: July 6
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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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Glorious, stirring sight! murmured Toad. . . . The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!
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It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.
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