"'And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. 'Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' 'What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. 'That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.'"
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I choose this scene purely because of the humor in the word play that is used. Instead of lesson being used in the traditional where the person is taught something, Lewis Carroll uses the words phonetic saying to say something else completely that being lessen.
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