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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.
Kenneth Grahame
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Kenneth Grahame
Age: 73 †
Born: 1859
Born: March 8
Died: 1932
Died: July 6
Film Writer
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Edinburgh
Scotland
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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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It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
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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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Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit and that limit you've reached
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