“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”
Thomas Hardy book The Return of the Native
Source: The Return of the Native
“From a distance I just cannot comprehend
What all this war is for.”
Bette Middler's version alters the last line of this stanza to "What all this fighting is for."
From a Distance (1985)
Context: From a distance you look like my friend
Even though we are at war
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
What all this war is for.
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