The Mock Turtle’s Story

” `When I’m a Duchess´, she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), `I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without – maybe it’s always pepper that makes people hot tempered´, she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, `and vinegar that makes them sour – and camomile that makes them bitter – and – barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know – ´”

“`Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it´”

“Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the Duchess was very ugly (…) “

“And the moral of that is – `The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.´”

“`Thinking again?´, the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp little chin.

`I’ve a right to think´, said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried.

`Just about as much right´, said the Duchess, `as pigs have to fly; and the m –´”

- lessons -> they lessen from day to day