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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Wind in the Willows: English children's novel, 1908, originally unillustrated · 1987 American animated musical TV film adaptation · British stop-motion animated TV series, 1984 to 1987, sequel · 1996 film by Terry Jones
“'Weasels — and stoats — and foxes — and so on. They're all right in a way — I'm very good friends with them — pass the time of day when we meet, and all that — but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then — well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.'”
“Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!”
“I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.”
“Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am — my friends get round me — we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories — and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I’ve been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.”
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