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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

— Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows (1908)

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As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

The Golden Age. The Finding of the Princess (1895)

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't;' I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

Dream Days (1898)

Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.

There's a misunderstanding somewhere, and I want to put it right. The fact is, this is a good dragon.

Dream Days (1898)

The most modest and retiring dragon in the world, if he's as big as four cart-horses and covered with blue scales, cannot keep altogether out of the public view.

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Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)

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