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As one by one the scents and sounds and names of long-forgotten places come gradually back and beckon to us. — Kenneth Grahame

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. — Kenneth Grahame

Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or me. — Kenneth Grahame

Such a rich chapter it had been, when one came to look back on it all! With illustrations so numerous and so very highly coloured! — Kenneth Grahame

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. — Kenneth Grahame

Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world. — Kenneth Grahame

I'm such a clever Toad. — Kenneth Grahame

Time, the destroyer of all things beautiful, — Kenneth Grahame

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple. — Kenneth Grahame

you look down flights of stone steps, overhung by great pink tufts of valerian and — Kenneth Grahame

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. — Kenneth Grahame

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired. — Kenneth Grahame

Thank you kindly, dear Mole, for all your pains and trouble tonight, and especially for your cleverness this morning!' The — Kenneth Grahame

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. — Kenneth Grahame

Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. — Kenneth Grahame

It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed. 'The world has held great Heroes, — Kenneth Grahame

I was a tremendous fan of the original Kenneth Grahame short story, 'The Reluctant Dragon.' — Tony DiTerlizzi

Hidden places, which had been mysterious mines for exploration in leafy summer, now exposed themselves and their secrets pathetically, — Kenneth Grahame

Thence, even as he gazed, a tiny column of smoke rose straight up into the still air. — Kenneth Grahame

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame

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

It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow. — Kenneth Grahame

Toad's ancestral home, won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks. — Kenneth Grahame

and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week's washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was — Kenneth Grahame

What is the meaning of this gross outrage? — Kenneth Grahame

Stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly. — Kenneth Grahame

But the wind playing in the reeds and rushes and osiers. — Kenneth Grahame

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. — Kenneth Grahame

Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight ... — Kenneth Grahame

Dream-canals and heard a phantom song pealing high between vaporous grey wave-lapped walls. — Kenneth Grahame

There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes. — Kenneth Grahame

SONG. . . . BY TOAD. (Composed by himself.) OTHER COMPOSITIONS. BY TOAD will be sung in the course of the evening by the. . . COMPOSER. — Kenneth Grahame

Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket. It never is. — Kenneth Grahame

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world ... What it hasn't got is not worth having ... — Kenneth Grahame

And let each one of the crowd try and shout it very loud, In honour of an animal of whom you're justly proud, For it's Toad's - great - day! — Kenneth Grahame

the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. He — Kenneth Grahame

This is fine!" he said to himself. "This is better than whitewashing! — Kenneth Grahame

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. — Kenneth Grahame

Hooray!' he cried, jumping up on seeing them, 'this is splendid! — Kenneth Grahame

and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and — Kenneth Grahame

I'm going to make an animal out of you, my boy! — Kenneth Grahame

This is the end of everything' (he said), 'at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular — Kenneth Grahame

The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air. — Kenneth Grahame

was absorbed and deaf to the world; alternately scribbling and sucking the top of his pencil. It — Kenneth Grahame

Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, — Kenneth Grahame

One member of the company was still awaited; the shepherd-boy for the nymphs to woo, the knight for whom the ladies waited at the window, — Kenneth Grahame

Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe. — Kenneth Grahame

You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash! — Kenneth Grahame

They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls. — Kenneth Grahame

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. — Kenneth Grahame

It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. — Kenneth Grahame

Come along inside ... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place. — Kenneth Grahame

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out — Kenneth Grahame

Neither had any desire for talk; the glow and glory of existing on this perfect morning were satisfaction full and sufficient — Kenneth Grahame

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

The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, As it raced along the road. Who was it steered it into a pond? Ingenious Mr. Toad! — Kenneth Grahame

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed. — Kenneth Grahame

The stoats are on guard, at every point, and they make the best sentinels in the world. — Kenneth Grahame

while a picked body of Toads, known at the Die-hards, or the Death-or-Glory Toads, will storm the orchard and carry everything before — Kenneth Grahame