"'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply……" — Lewis Carroll
"'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready for a little argument, 'and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that - ' 'Ridiculous!' cried the Queen. 'Why, don't you see, child - ' here she broke off with a frown, and, after thinking for a minute, suddenly changed the subject of the conversation."
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310 Quotes by Lewis Carroll
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
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