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And How Many Hours A Day Did You Do Lessons?' Said Alice, In A Hurry To Change The Subject. Ten Hours The First Day,' Said The Mock Turtle: 'nine The Next, And So On.' What A Curious Plan!' Exclaimed Alice. That's The Reason They're Called Lessons,' The Gryphon Remarked: 'because They Lessen From Day To Day.

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And How Many Hours A Day Did You Do Lessons?' Said Alice, In A Hurry To Change The Subject. Ten Hours The First Day,' Said The Mock Turtle: 'nine The Next, And So On.' What A Curious Plan!' Exclaimed Alice. That's The Reason They're Called Lessons,' The Gryphon Remarked: 'because They Lessen From Day To Day.

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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.

Is Life Itself A Dream, I Wonder?

When The Sands Are All Dry, He Is Gay As A Lark, And Will Talk In Contemptuous Tones Of The Shark: But, When The Tide Rises And Sharks Are Around, His Voice Has A Timid And Tremulous Sound.

No Ghost Of Any Common Sense Begins A Conversation

If Everybody Minded Their Own Business... The World Would Go Round A Deal Faster Than It Does.

You're Thinking About Something, My Dear, And That Makes You Forget To Talk.

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?

Oh, 'tis Love, 'tis Love That Makes The World Go Round.

Take My Friends And My Home - As An Outcast I'll Roam: Take The Money I Have In The Bank: It Is Just What I Wish, But Deprive Me Of Fish, And My Life Would Indeed Be Blank.

So She Was Considering In Her Own Mind...whether The Pleasure Of Making A Daisy-chain Would Be Worth The Trouble Of Getting Up & Picking The Daisies.

Who In The World Am I? Ah, That's The Great Puzzle.

Rule Forty-two. All Persons More Than A Mile High To Leave The Court.

Alice In Wonderland Book

And My Heart Is Like Nothing So Much As A Bowl Brimming Over With Quivering Curds!

But, Said Alice, The The World Has Absolutely No Sens, Who's Stopping Us From Inventing One?

I Try To Believe In As Many As Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Count Them, Alice. One, There Are Drinks That Make You Shrink. Two, There Are Foods That Make You Grow. Three, Animals Can Talk. Four, Cats Can Disappear. Five, There Is A Place Called Underland. Six, I Can Slay The Jabberwocky.

Child Of The Pure, Unclouded Brow And Dreaming Eyes Of Wonder.

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.

Who Did You Pass On The Road?" The King Went On, Holding Out His Hand To The Messenger For Some More Hay. "nobody," Said The Messenger. "quite Right," Said The King; "this Young Lady Saw Him Too. So Of Course Nobody Walks Slower Than You." "i Do My Best," The Messenger Said In A Sullen Tone. "i'm Sure Nobody Walks Much Faster Than I Do!" "he Can't Do That," Said The King, "or Else He'd Have Been Here First.

Un-dish-cover The Fish, Or Dishcover The Riddle.

We Are But Older Children, Dear, Who Fret To Find Our Bedtime Near.

Is All Our Life, Then But A Dream Seen Faintly In The Golden Gleam Athwart Time's Dark Resistless Stream?

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.

No Discussion Between Two Persons Can Be Of Any Use, Until Each Knows Clearly What It Is That The Other Asserts.

Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards.

I Have Proved By Actual Trial That A Letter, That Takes An Hour To Write, Takes Only About 3 Minutes To Read!

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.

Through The Looking Glass

"she Can't Do Subtraction." Said The White Queen. "can You Do Division? Divide A Loaf By A Knife-what's The Answer To That?" "i Suppose-" Alice Was Beginning, But The Red Queen Answered For Her. "bread-and-butter, Of Course."

If I Was Not Assured By The Best Authority On Earth That The World Is To Be Destroyed By Fire, I Should Conclude That The Day Of Destruction Is At Hand, But Brought On By Means Of An Agent Very Opposite To That Of Heat.

I Said You Looked Like An Egg, Sir. And Some Eggs Are Very Pretty, You Know.

Through The Looking Glass

Now, Here, You See, It Takes All The Running You Can Do, To Keep In The Same Place. If You Want To Get Somewhere Else, You Must Run At Least Twice As Fast As That!

"can You Do Addition?" The White Queen Said. "what's One And One And One And One And One And One And One And One And One And One?" "i Don't Know," Said Alice. "i Lost Count." "she Can't Do Addition," The Red Queen Interrupted.

It's A Poor Sort Of Memory That Only Works Backwards.

Tis A Secret: None Knows How It Comes, How It Goes: But The Name Of The Secret Is Love!

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