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• You know," he added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• I beg your pardon?" said Alice. "It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• The other Messenger's called Hatta. I must have TWO, you know -- to come and go.
  One to come, and one to go. -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.
  -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Gla...
• The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his migh
  He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright -- And this was very odd, because it was The middle of the night....
• The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!
  "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it....
• Not today, I have a headache...