“There's nobody in the world I'd sooner oblige than you and this young gentleman here. But the whole thing's nonsense, and conventionality, and popular thick-headedness. There's absolutely nothing to fight about, from beginning to end. And anyhow I'm not going to, so that settles it!”

—  Kenneth Grahame, book The Reluctant Dragon

The dragon to St. George.
Dream Days (1898), The Reluctant Dragon

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