Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

“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.” “How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. “You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

“You should learn not to make personal remarks,” Alice said with some severity: “it’s very rude.”

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’”

“That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.”