"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see."
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"You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness."
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"Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!"
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""Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense.""
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"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
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"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."
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"Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
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"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."
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"'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'"
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"And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland"
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"When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!"
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"I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it."
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"In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by"
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"How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another."
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"In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again."
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"But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!"
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"I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era."
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"like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room."
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