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‘By-the-bye, what became of the baby?’ Said the Cat…
‘It turned into a pig,’…
‘I thought it would,’ said the Cat

‘How do you know I’m mad?’ Said Alice.
‘You must be…or you wouldn’t have come here.’

‘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.
‘I don’t much care where—‘ said Alice.
‘Then it doesn’t matter which was you go,’ said the Cat.
‘—so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation.
‘Oh, you’re sure to do that…if you only walk long enough.’

‘If it had grown up…it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes a rather handsome pig, I think.’

‘Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.’

‘Of everybody minded their own business,’ the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ‘the world would go round a deal faster than it does.’

‘Are you to get in at all…that’s the first question, you know.’
It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so.

It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual.

"It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).
'But I'm not used to it!'
piteous tone. And she thought to herself, 'I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!'
'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

‘What size do you want to be?’ [the Caterpillar] asked.
‘Oh, I’m not particular as to size,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘only one doesn’t like changing so often, you know.’
‘I don’t know,’ said the Caterpillar.
Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.