Some people , no doubt , would do so . So much the better for us , if not for them . It takes all sorts , they say , to make a world . CHAPTER III `` He prayeth well who loveth well Both men and bird and beast ; He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small : For the dear God who loveth us , He made and loveth all . '' COLERIDGE . Tom was now quite amphibious . You do not know what that means ? You had better , then , ask the nearest Government pupil-teacher , who may possibly answer you smartly enough , thus - `` Amphibious . Adjective , derived from two Greek words , amphi , a fish , and bios , a beast . An animal supposed by our ignorant ancestors to be compounded of a fish and a beast ; which therefore , like the hippopotamus , ca n't live on the land , and dies in the water . '' However that may be , Tom was amphibious : and what is better still , he was clean . For the first time in his life , he felt how comfortable it was to have nothing on him but himself . But he only enjoyed it : he did not know it , or think about it ; just as you enjoy life and health , and yet never think about being alive and healthy ; and may it be long before you have to think about it ! He did not remember having ever been dirty . Indeed , he did not remember any of his old troubles , being tired , or hungry , or beaten , or sent up dark chimneys . Since that sweet sleep , he had forgotten all about his master , and Harthover Place , and the little white girl , and in a word , all that had happened to him when he lived before ; and what was best of all , he had forgotten all the bad words which he had learned from Grimes , and the rude boys with whom he used to play . That is not strange : for you know , when you came into this world , and became a land-baby , you remembered nothing . So why should he , when he became a water-baby ? Then have you lived before ? My dear child , who can tell ?
One can only tell that , by remembering something which happened where we lived XXXXX ; and as we remember nothing , we know nothing about it ; and no book , and no man , can ever tell us certainly .
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