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• Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word.
  -- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Gla...
• I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• 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!" -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Gla...
• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his migh
  He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright -- And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night....