"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.

Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be ...
~ Lewis Carroll ~












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