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Kenneth Grahame Quotes: The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.
         

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.


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The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.
         



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