

“When I’m a Duchess,” she said to herself (not in a very hopeful tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without. Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that; then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland

“Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “You might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

“If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!”
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
― Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
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