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  1. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    daresay you haven't had much practice,' said
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  2. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
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  3. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    Well, in OUR country,' said Alice, still panting a little, 'you'd generally get to somewhere else-if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've 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!
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  4. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    Oh, what fun it'll be, when they see me through the glass in here, and can't get at me!
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  5. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens {Alice had once made the remark} that, whatever you say to them, they ALWAYS purr. 'If they would only purr for "yes" and mew for "no," or any rule of that sort,' she had said, 'so that one could keep up a conversation! But how CAN you talk with a person if they always say the same thing?"
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  6. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    And if he left off dreaming about you,
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  7. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things:Of shoes - and ships - and sealing-wax - Of cabbages - and kings -And why the sea is boiling hot - And whether pigs have wings
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  8. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    it seems to fill my head with ideas-only I don't exactly know what they are!
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  9. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    How is it you can all talk so nicely?' Alice said, hoping to get it into a better temper by a compliment. 'I've been in many gardens before, but none of the flowers could talk.' 'Put your hand down, and feel the ground,' said the Tiger-lily. 'Then you'll know why.' Alice did so. 'It's very hard,' she said, 'but I don't see what that has to do with it.' 'In most gardens,' the Tiger-lily said, 'they make the beds too soft-so that the flowers are always asleep.' This sounded a very good reason, and Alice was quite pleased to know it. 'I never thought of that before!' she said.
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  10. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    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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  11. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    He's dreaming now,' said Tweedledee: 'and what do you think he's dreaming about?'Alice said 'Nobody can guess that.''Why, about YOU!' Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. 'And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?''Where I am now, of course,' said Alice.'Not you!' Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. 'You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream!''If that there King was to wake,' added Tweedledum, 'you'd go out-bang!-just like a candle!
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  12. Lewis Carroll _ Through the Looking-Glass

    Consider anything, only don't cry!
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