← It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again. 🔊
← However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more. 🔊
← And when I grow up, I’ll write one--but I’m grown up now,’ she added in a sorrowful tone; ‘at least there’s no room to grow up any more here.’ 🔊
← Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished. 🔊
← ‘If you’re going to turn into a pig, my dear,’ said Alice, seriously, ‘I’ll have nothing more to do with you. Mind now!’ 🔊
← ‘I didn’t know it was your table,’ said Alice; ‘it’s laid for a great many more than three.’ 🔊
← And the moral of that is--“The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.”’ 🔊
← or if you’d like it put more simply--“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.”’ 🔊
← Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said ‘What else had you to learn?’ 🔊
← ‘I can tell you more than that, if you like,’ said the Gryphon. ‘Do you know why it’s called a whiting?’ 🔊