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1 " If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. "
― Lewis Carroll , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2 " The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, "
3 " How long is forever?Sometimes just one second "
4 " How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another. "
5 " And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation? "
6 " That's the reason they're called lessons," the Gryphon remarked: "because they lessen from day to day. "
7 " Alice thought to herself "I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin. "
8 " Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. "
9 " at any rate, there's no harm in trying. "
10 " I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life! "
11 " what you would seem to be"—or if you'd like it put more simply—"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. "
12 " but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. "
13 " 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. "
14 " Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle! "
15 " you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. "
16 " Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person! "
17 " If you knew Time as well as I do,’ said the Hatter, ‘you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him. "
18 " simply—"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. "
19 " I wish I hadn't cried so much! "
20 " She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and "