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Kenneth Grahame Quotes: The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.
         

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.


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