You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit." "Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark. "Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis CarrollOne of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.
Lewis CarrollThat which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
Lewis CarrollWhen I use a word,โ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, โit means just what I choose it to mean โ neither more nor less.โ โThe question is,โ said Alice, โwhether you can make words mean so many different things.โ โThe question is,โ said Humpty Dumpty, โwhich is to be master โ thatโs all.
Lewis Carroll