"I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!"
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"Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle."
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"Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"
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"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."
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"Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!"
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"Alice: I simply must get through! Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big. Simply impassible. Alice: You mean impossible? Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible."
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"In fact, now I come to think of it, do we decide questions, at all? We decide answers, no doubt: but surely the questions decide us? It is the dog, you know, that wags the tail--not the tail that wags the dog."
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"He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too."
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"Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!"
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"For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."
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"Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!"
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"My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe."
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"The Good and Great must ever shun That reckless and abandoned one Who stoops to perpetrate a pun."
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"Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court."
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"I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!"
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"I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it."
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"And here Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way, 'Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?' and sometimes, 'Do bats eat cats?' for, you see, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it."
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"when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural"
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"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?"
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"You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk."
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