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The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 'What! Never heard of uglifying! it exclaimed. 'You know what to beautify is, I suppose? 'Yes, said Alice doubtfully: 'it means to make anything prettier. 'Well, then, the Gryphon went on, 'if you don't know what to uglify is, you ARE a simpleton.
"What is it?" The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. "Never heard of uglifying!" it exclaimed. "You know what to beautify is, I suppose?" "Yes," said Alice doubtfully, "it means to make anything prettier." "Well, then," the Gryphon went on, "if you don't know what to uglify is, you are a simpleton."
If you will go and live in a dingy suburb, you can't reasonably complain that all the world's suburban. Being the most cheerful of pessimists, a dweller in the country all the days of my life, I have no hesitation in expressing my profound conviction that within my memory more has been done to beautify than to uglify England.
Unfortunately, it is so much easier to give cod-liver oil and iron than to turn the best spare room into a night nursery, and to uglify the cot by taking away the curtains which made it so pretty, and to give up some of the pleasures of society in order to superintend the preparation of the baby's food; that the doctor is called in to correct by drugs the evil which drugs cannot reach.
The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. "Never heard of uglifying!" it exclaimed. "You know what to beautify is, I suppose?" "Yes," said Alice doubtfully: "it means to make anything prettier." "Well, then," the Gryphon went on, "if you don't know what to uglify is, you are a simpleton."
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