. . . before breakfast?
Alice laughed. `There's no use trying,' she said: `one CAN'T believe impossible things.'
`I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
-- from Chapter V of Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll; the whole book is available here, at The Literature Network.
