“It was all very well to say `Drink me,’ but the wise little Alice was not going
to do THAT in a hurry. `No, I’ll look first,’ she said, `and see whether it’s
marked “poison” or not’; for she had read several nice little histories about
children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant
things, all because they WOULD not remember the simple rules their friends had
taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too
long; and that if you cut your finger VERY deeply with a knife, it usually
bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked
`poison,’ it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.”
From ‘Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland’
by Lewis Carroll
