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“Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?” quote by Kenneth Grahame — Download Open image

“Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?”

Kenneth Grahame

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The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

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