"The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo."
"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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Source: Lewis Carroll (2001). “Jabberwocky and Other Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation
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