Alice had begun with 'Let's pretend we're kings and queens;' and her sister, who liked being exact, had argued that they couldn't, because there were only two of them, and Alice hand been reduced at last to say, 'Well, you can be one of them then, and I'll be the rest.
Lewis CarrollYou have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
Lewis CarrollItโs a miserable story!โ said Bruno. โIt begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.โ โI havenโt got it with me,โ Sylvie whispered. โThen I wonโt cry,โ said Bruno manfully.
Lewis Carroll'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by - Tweedledee, I think it was.' 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that - ' 'Oh, it needn't come to that!' Alice hastily said, hoping to keep him from beginning.
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