“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.”

— Kenneth Grahame, book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 1

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British novelist 1859–1932

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