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As large as life, and twice as natural.

The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.

"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."

"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!

"Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with," the Mock Turtle replied, "and the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance: They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"

How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws, And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws!

The little fishes of the sea, They sent an answer back to me. The little fishes' answer was "We cannot do it, Sir, because--"

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

I am fond of children--except boys.

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

Oh, frabjous day! Callooh. Callay! He chortled in his joy.

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

'T was brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot-- And whether pigs have wings."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master -- that's all.".