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• Look up, speak nicely, and don't twiddle your fingers all the time.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing.
  -- 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...
• You see, a minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
  -- 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...
• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.
  -- 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!...
• Can you do Addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?
  "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." "She can't do Addition," the Red Queen interrupted....