"Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully.
"An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd have
said 'Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now."
"I never ask advice about growing," Alice said indignantly.
"Too proud?" the other enquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. "I mean,"
she said, "that one can't help growing older."
"ONE can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but TWO can. With
proper assistance, you might have left off at seven."
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass"
"An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked MY advice, I'd have
said 'Leave off at seven' -- but it's too late now."
"I never ask advice about growing," Alice said indignantly.
"Too proud?" the other enquired.
Alice felt even more indignant at this suggestion. "I mean,"
she said, "that one can't help growing older."
"ONE can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but TWO can. With
proper assistance, you might have left off at seven."
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass"
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Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.
Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant `there's... - I don't know what you mean by `glory,'" Alice said
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.
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"I don't know," said Alice.
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- And yet he had a thomb of gold parde.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400)
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Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line... - Would you like some syrup with that WAFFLE Mr.
Clinton... - Did you ever have one of those days when you just couldn't get rid of a bomb?
Batman, "Batman" TV... - You know it's Monday when you wake up and it's Tuesday
--... - When you said ``HEAVILY FORESTED'' it reminded me of an overdue
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Don't you SEE? O'Grogan SWALLOWED a VALUABLE COIN...
