You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the desert sands, and pacing the margin of the sea, and chasing knights all over the place, and devouring damsels, and going on generally- whereas I liked to get my meals regular and then to prop my back against a bit of rock and snooze a bit, and wake up and think of things going on and how they kept going on just the same, you know!

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Kenneth Grahame was a 19th-century British writer. Kenneth Grahame was a British writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908). Read more on Wikipedia →

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