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• You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as eve
  Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose -- What made you so awfully clever?...
• You are old," said the youth, "and I'm told by my peers That your lectures bore people to death.
  Yet you talk at one hundred conventions per year -- Don't you think that you should save your breath?...
• Curiouser and curiouser! -- Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Sentence first -- verdict afterwards. -- Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.
  "It's the oldest rule in the book," said the King....
• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day
  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts And took them quite away!...
• You know you say things are 'much of a muchness' -- did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness?
  "Really, now you ask me, " said Alice, very much confused, I don't think --" "Then you shouldn't talk," said the Hatter....
• Cheshire-Puss," she began, "would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
  "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat....
• The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.
  "It MUST come sometimes to 'jam to-day,'" Alice objected....