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Chapter VI Pig and Pepper |
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat. I dont much care where said Alice. Then it doesnt matter which way you go, said the Cat. so long as I get somewhere, Alice added as an explanation. Oh, youre sure to do that, said the Cat, if you only walk long enough. | |||||
But I dont want to go among mad people, Alice remarked. Oh, you cant help that, said the Cat: were all mad here. Im mad. Youre mad. How do you know Im mad? said Alice. You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldnt have come here. | ||||||
Chapter XI The Mock Turtles Story |
Youre thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I cant tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit. Perhaps it hasnt one, Alice ventured to remark. Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everythings got a moral, if only you can find it. | |||||
I quite agree with you, said the Duchess; and the moral of that isBe what you would seem to beor, if youd like it put more simplyNever 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. | Topic: | |||||
Chapter X The Lobster Quadrille |
No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise. Wouldnt it, really? said Alice, in a tone of great surprise. Of course not, said the Mock Turtle. Why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I should say With what porpoise? | Topics: | ||||
Chapter XII Alices Evidence |
Are they in the prisoners handwriting? asked another of the jurymen. No, theyre not, said the White Rabbit, and thats the queerest thing about it. (The jury all looked puzzled.) He must have imitated somebody elses hand, said the King. (The jury all brightened up again.) Please, your Majesty, said the Knave, I didnt write it, and they cant prove that I did: theres no name signed at the end. If you didnt sign it, said the King, that only makes the matter worse. You must have meant some mischief, or else youd have signed your name like an honest man. Note (Hals): end note | Topic: | ||||
Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop. | ||||||
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Chapter I Looking-Glass House |
You know Im saving up all your punishments for Wednesday week Suppose they had saved up all my punishments? she went on, talking more to herself than the kitten. What would they do at the end of a year? I should be sent to prison, I suppose, when the day came. Orlet me seesuppose each punishment was to be going without a dinner: then, when the miserable day came, I should have to go without fifty dinners at once! Well, I shouldnt mind that much! Id far rather go without them than eat them! | ||||
Chapter II The Garden of Live Flowers |
Well, in our country, said Alice, still panting a little, youd generally get to somewhere elseif you ran very fast for a long time as weve been doing. A slow sort of country! said the Queen. 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. | ||||
Chapter IV Tweedledum and Tweedledee |
I know what youre thinking about, said Tweedledum; but it isnt so, nohow. Contrariwise, continued Tweedledee, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isnt, it aint. Thats logic. | Topic: | |||
Well, its no use your talking about waking him, said Tweedledum, when youre only one of the things in his dream. You know very well youre not real. I am real! said Alice, and began to cry. You wont make yourself a bit realler by crying, Tweedledee remarked: theres nothing to cry about. If I wasnt real, Alice saidhalf-laughing through her tears, it all seemed so ridiculousI shouldnt be able to cry. I hope you dont suppose those are real tears? Tweedledum interrupted in a tone of great contempt. | |||||
Chapter V Wool and Water |
Twopence a week, and jam every other day. Alice couldnt help laughing, as she said I dont want you to hire meand I dont care for jam. Its very good jam, said the Queen. Well, I dont want any to-day, at any rate. You couldnt have it if you did want it, the Queen said. The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterdaybut never jam to-day. It must come sometimes to jam today, Alice objected. No, it cant, said the Queen. Its jam every other day: to-day isnt any other day, you know. | ||||
Hes in prison now, being punished: and the trial doesnt even begin till next Wednesday: and of course the crime comes last of all. Suppose he never commits the crime? said Alice. That would be all the better, wouldnt it? [...] | Topic: | ||||
Chapter VI Humpty Dumpty |
When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less. The question is, said Alice, whether you can make words mean so many different things. The question is, said Humpty Dumpty, which is to be masterthats all. | Topic: | |||
I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that Oh, it neednt come to that! [...] | |||||
Chapter VII The Lion and the Unicorn |
Would yoube good enough Alice panted out, after running a little further, to stop a minutejust to getones breath again? Im good enough, the King said, only Im not strong enough. You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. | Topic: | |||
Chapter IX Queen Alice |
First, the fish must be caught. That is easy: a baby, I think, could have caught it. Next, the fish must be bought. That is easy: a penny, I think, would have bought it. Now cook me the fish! That is easy, and will not take more than a minute. Let it lie in a dish! That is easy, because it already is in it. Bring it here! Let me sup! It is easy to set such a dish on the table. Take the dish-cover up! Ah, that is so hard that I fear Im unable! For it holds it like glue Holds the lid to the dish, while it lies in the middle: Which is easiest to do, Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle? | Answer Topic: | |||
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