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In most gardens", the Tiger-lily said, "they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. Nothing's impossible!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling m...

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I'm sure I'll take you with pleasure!" the Queen said. "Twopence a week, and jam every other day." Alice couldn't help laughing, as she said, "I don't want you to hire me - and I don't care for jam." "It's very good jam," said the Queen. "Well, I don...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

It's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Speak English!" said the Eaglet. "I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!" And the Eaglet bend down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess tha...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -" "Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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,' ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Take off your hat," the King said to the Hatter. "It isn't mine," said the Hatter. "Stolen!" the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made a memorandum of the fact. "I keep them to sell," the Hatter added as an explanation; "I've none o...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again." And when they wake up in the summ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass