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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.

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There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

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It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!

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The clever men at 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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Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: March 8th, 1859

Died: June 6th, 1932

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