"They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs."
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"I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know."
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"You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying."
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"It's a large as life and twice as natural"
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"You couldn't have it if you DID want it."
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"I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet."
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"It's jam every other day: to-day isn't any other day, you know."
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