“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
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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.”
Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle!
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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