River Why Quotes

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The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!
Thomas Hardy (Tess of the D’Urbervilles)
Learn from Captain Smith—President Smith. Do you know why he is well liked as president while President Wingfield and President Ratcliffe were not?" I know the answer because I have already thought about it. "It is because Captain Smith cares about all of us," I say. "The other leaders cared only for their own comfort and their own gain, and for the gain of a few of their friends.
Elisa Carbone (Blood on the River: James Town, 1607)