"The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo."
"Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
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Source: 'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 6
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