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There is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in… — Kenneth Grahame

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There is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows · 1908
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1908
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Kenneth Grahame
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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.
Original citation
Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

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He saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.

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