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‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

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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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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today It must come sometime to jam today, Alice objected No it can't said the Queen It's jame every other day. Today isn't any other day, you know

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I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide

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Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!

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Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather suddenly), he fell off behind. Otherwise he kept on pretty well, except that he had a habit of now and then falling off sideways; and, as he generally did this on the side on which Alice was walking, she soon found that it was the best plan not to walk quite close to the horse.

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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

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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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If there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know," he went on [...]; "I seem to see some meaning in them, after all.

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Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!

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Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word.

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"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

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It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.

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If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

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Why is a raven like a writing desk?

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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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Life, what is it but a dream?

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'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

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