"Who are YOU?" said the Caterpillar.
This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice
replied, rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at
least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must
have been changed several times since then."
(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
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"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
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"But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
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Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When
I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes
I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
(Through the Looking Glass)
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