Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films.
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“There is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
—Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)
“Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!”
—Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)