When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'itmeans just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.
Where shall I begin, please your Majesty? he asked. Begin at the beginning, the King said gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Who are YOU? said the Caterpillar.
Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!
You are old Father William,' the young man said, 'and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head-do you think, at your age, it is right?
You couldn't have it if you DID want it.
You mean you ca’n’t take less, said the Hatter: it’s very easy to take more than nothing.
You might just as well say, added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!
Burning with curiosity
But Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
Curtseying as you're falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) 'And what an ignorant little girl
Have i gone mad?im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.
Thought Alice, without pictures or conversation? So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a...
We can but stand aside, and let them Rush upon their Fate! There is scarcely anything of yours, upon which it is so dangerous to Rush, as your Fate. You may Rush upon your Potato-beds, or your Strawbe...
What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?'- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch. 1
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.
Ну что ж, решено, если я Мейбл, останусь здесь навсегда. Пусть тогда попробуют прийтит сюда за мной! Свесят головы вниз, станут звать: Подымайся, милочка, к нам. А я на них только посмотрю и отвечу: С...
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare."Exactly so," said Alice."Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on."I do," Alice hastily replied; "...
No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation
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