Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book,...
— Lewis Carroll
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- what is the use of a book, thought Alice, without pictures or conversations?
- burning with curiosity
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