Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.