Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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Kenneth Grahame quotes & passages
4 passages by Kenneth Grahame, from The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame died in 1932, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!
The world has held great Heroes,As history-books have showed;But never a name to go down to fameCompared with that of Toad!
Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows, 1908 · Chapter X: The Further Adventures of Toad
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