“There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and, burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
“You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit."
"Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark.
"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
― Alice in Wonderland
"Perhaps it hasn't one," Alice ventured to remark.
"Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”
― Alice in Wonderland
“Mine is a long and a sad tale!' said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. 'It is a long tail, certainly,' said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; 'but why do you call it sad?”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland
“Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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