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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.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows · 1908

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Vacation Time off Taking it easy

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Kenneth Grahame

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

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The Wind in the Willows · 1908

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