She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears int… - Lewis Carroll

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.

Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it
- the Dutchess

How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale!