“Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.”

— Agatha Christie, book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

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English mystery and detective writer 1890–1976

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“Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter
I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice”

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“Alice: This is impossible.
The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is.”

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“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“And the conversion of the other Don Quixote — he who was converted only to die — was possible because he was mad, and it was his madness, and not his death or his conversion that immortalized him, earning him forgiveness for this crime of having been born. Felix culpa! And neither was his madness cured, but only transformed. His death was his last knightly adventure; in dying he stormed heaven, which suffereth violence.”

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“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

Les hommes seront toujours fous; et ceux qui croient les guérir sont les plus fous de la bande.
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“Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.
Mad Hatter: Yes. You can always take more than nothing.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

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