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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - ...

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There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's ...

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The Wind in the Willows

When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on...

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The Wind in the Willows

It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In t...

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The Wind in the Willows

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole w...

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The Wind in the Willows

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort o...

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The Wind in the Willows

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or...

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The Wind in the Willows

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all t...

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Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself an...

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The Wind in the Willows

...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight...

The Wind in the Willows

The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the little village as they approached it on soft...

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The Wind in the Willows

The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, whe...

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The Wind in the Willows

The pageant of the river bank had marched steadily along, unfolding itself in scene-pictures that su...

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The Wind in the Willows

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he l...

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The Wind in the Willows

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, ...

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The Wind in the Willows

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

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves be...

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The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much...

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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 a...

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You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampagin...

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And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are ne...

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The Golden Age

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart...

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The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.

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Kenneth Grahame

Film writer

Born: 1859-03-08

Died: 1932-07-06

Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a British writer best remembered for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon, which was later adapted into a Disney movie.More