Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle's Story / Taste and Feelings

  'When I'm a Duchess,'

  she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though),

  'I won't have any pepper in my kitchen at all. Soup does very well without—Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,'

  she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule,

  'and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn't be so stingy about it, you know—'