" and you really live by the river? What a jolly life!"
"By it and with it and on it and in it" said the Rat.
"It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing." 🌊🩵
"and when tired, at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea."
