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From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll

"What sort of insects do you rejoice in, where _you_ come from?" the
Gnat inquired.
"I don't _rejoice_ in insects at all," Alice explained, "because I'm
rather afraid of them---at least the large kinds.  But I can tell you
the names of some of them."
"Of course they answer to their names?" the Gnat remarked carelessly.
"I never knew them do it."
"What's the use of their having names," the Gnat said, "if they won't
answer to them?"
"No use to _them_," said Alice; "but it's useful to the people that
name them, I suppose..."
		-- Through the Looking-Glass
		   Chapter iii

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