How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming "Off with her head! Off with--"
"Nonsense!" said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.


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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.
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For the snark was a boojum, you see.
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The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.
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The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows...
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But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back aga...
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It's as large as life, and twice as natural!
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We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
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and a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across...
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I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.
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A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many l...
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Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as...
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When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose i...
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The further off from England, the nearer is to France - / Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but com...
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And thick and fast they came at last, / And more, and more, and more.
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Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.

Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty sa...
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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
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No admittance till the week after next.
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'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the...
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When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a ...
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I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - / I said it in German and Greek; / But I wholly forgot (a...
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The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers!
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I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving...
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But answer came there none - / And this was scarcely odd because / They'd eaten every one.
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It [the Cheshire Cat] vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the...
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"Begin at the beginning,", the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then st...
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'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, ...
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Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / All mimsy were the borogove...
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Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and rem...
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But then,' thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way-...
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How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile,/ On eve...
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou A...
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Please, Ma' am, is this New Zealand or Australia?
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Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others
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Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round
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I said it very loud and clear; / I went and shouted in his ear.
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"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships - and sealing wax ...
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His answer trickled through my head - Like water through a sieve
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No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise
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But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We'r...
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Tırtıl'la Alice sessizlik içinde bir süre bakıştılar; neden sonra Tırtıl, nargilesinin marp...
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I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously....
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Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.

"I do," Alice hastily replie...
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But I was thinking of a way To multiply by ten, And always, in the answer, get The question back aga...
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,"I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat who was sitting in a tree "What road do I take?"

The cat ask...
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I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

~ Cheshire Cat
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If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.
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Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, �...
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I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours
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I don't like the looks of it,' said the King: 'however, it may kis my hand, if it likes.'
'I'd ...
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Alice didn't think that proved it at all; however, she went on: 'And how do you know that you're mad...
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Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.
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The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard no...
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Let’s consider your age to begin with — how old are you?’

‘I’m seven and a half...
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Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--
turn your toes out when you...
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Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."
This sounded p...
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
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Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.
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Do you suppose she's a wildflower?
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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that ...
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Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite fo...
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name...
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I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but...
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