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"The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad."
Man
"Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings."
Humor
"Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk."
Adventure
"Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know."
People
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."
Society
"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!"
Time
"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."
Friendship
"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."
Leisure
"Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing."
Adventure
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."
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"The act of fishing " for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available " is enough."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
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"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud."
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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."
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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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