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> [“Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship. Sudden and magnificent, the sun's broad golden disc showed itself over the horizon facing them; and the first rays, shooting across the level water-meadows, took the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/then-the-two-animals-crouching-to-the-earth-bowed-their-heads-and-did/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

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> [“For this is the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow on those to whom he has revealed himself in their helping: the gift of forgetfulness. Lest the awful remembrance should remain and grow, and overshadow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/for-this-is-the-last-best-gift-that-the-kindly-demi-god-is-careful-to/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

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## Other authors on Best gift

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## More by Kenneth Grahame

> [Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/monkeys-who-very-sensibly-refrain-from-speech-lest-they-should-be-set/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/what-the-boy-chiefly-dabbled-in-was-natural-history-and-fairy-tales/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [“The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/the-dragon-is-a-more-enduring-animal-than-the-pterodactyl-i-have/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/the-past-was-like-a-bad-dream-the-future-was-all-happy-holiday-as-i/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/independence-is-all-very-well-but-we-animals-never-allow-our-friends/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [“Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/supper-was-finished-at-last-and-each-animal-felt-that-his-skin-was/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/the-river-corrected-the-rat-it-s-my-world-what-it-hasn-t-got-is-not/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [“What is the meaning of this gross outrage?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/what-is-the-meaning-of-this-gross-outrage/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/slowly-but-with-no-doubt-or-hesitation-whatever-and-in-something-of-a/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [“In silence they landed, and pushed through the blossom and scented herbage and undergrowth that led up to the level ground, till they stood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/in-silence-they-landed-and-pushed-through-the-blossom-and-scented/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/it-s-not-the-sort-of-night-for-bed-anyhow/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/but-mole-stood-still-a-moment-held-in-thought-as-one-wakened-suddenly/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [“This day was only the first of man similar ones for the emancipated Mole, each of them longer and fuller of interest as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/this-day-was-only-the-first-of-man-similar-ones-for-the-emancipated/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [“As he hurried along, eagerly anticipating the moment when he would be at home again among the things he knew and liked, the Mole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/as-he-hurried-along-eagerly-anticipating-the-moment-when-he-would-be/)

[Kenneth Grahame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-grahame/)

> [Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-grahame/animals-arrived-liked-the-look-of-the-place-took-up-their-quarters/)

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