He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. … - Lewis Carroll

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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

Lewis Carroll

He said he would come in,' the White Queen went on, `because he was looking for a hippopotamus. Now, as it happened, there wasn't such a thing in the house, that morning. ' Is there generally?' Alice asked in an astonished tone. Well, only on Thursdays,' said the Queen.

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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.

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May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

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I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls.

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"I could have done it in a much more complicated way," said the Red Queen, immensely proud.

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