Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

(Alice had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;

“to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.

“How should I know?” said Alice, surprised at her own courage. “It’s no business of mine.”

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.”

So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality—the