The world has held great Heroes,As history-books have showed;But never a name to go down to fameCompared with that of Toad!
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Kenneth Grahame died in 1932, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1908. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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