Birthday mix of quotes and pictures

Αlice couldn't help smiling as she took out her memorandum book, and worked the sum for him:

365
1
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364
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Humpty Dumpty took the book and looked at it carefully. `That seems to be done right --' he began.

`You're holding it upside down!' Alice interrupted.

`To be sure I was!' Humpty Dumpty said gaily as she turned it round for him. `I thought it looked a little queer. As I was saying, that seems to be done right -- though I haven't time to look it over thoroughly just now -- and that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents --'

`Certainly,' said Alice.

`And only one for birthday presents, you know...

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, ch. VI., 1872

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