Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.
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A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.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.
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When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.
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'Glorious, stirring sight' murmured Toad.... 'The poetry of motion The real way to travel The only way to travel Here today in next week tomorrow Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped always somebody else's horizons O bliss O poop-poop O my O my'
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There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
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It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!
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