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

"... Let's consider your age to begin with---how old are you?"
"I'm seven and a half, exactly."
"You needn't say `exactually,'" the Queen remarked.  "I can believe it
without that.  Now I'll give _you_ something to believe.  I'm just one
hundred and one, five months and a day."
"I can't believe _that_!" said Alice.
"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone.  "Try again: draw a
long breath, and shut your eyes."
Alice laughed.  "There's no use trying," she said: "one _can't_ believe
impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen.  "When I
was you age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day.  Why, sometimes
I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
		-- Through the Looking-Glass
		   Chapter v

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