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.Read this excerpt from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. “You're wrong THERE, at any rate,” said the Queen: “were YOU ever punished?”

“Only for faults,” said Alice.

“And you were all the better for it, I know!” the Queen said triumphantly.

“Yes, but then I HAD done the things I was punished for,” said Alice: “that makes all the difference.”

“But if you HADN'T done them,” the Queen said, “that would have been better still; better, and better, and better!” Her voice went higher with each “better,” till it got quite to a squeak at last.

Alice was just beginning to say “There's a mistake somewhere—”

Which line from the excerpt is an example of a statement that is both logical and nonsensical?

“You're wrong THERE, at any rate,” said the Queen: “were YOU ever punished?”
“And you were all the better for it, I know!” the Queen said triumphantly.
“Yes, but then I HAD done the things I was punished for,” said Alice: “that makes all the difference.”
“But if you HADN'T done them,” the Queen said, “that would have been better still; better, and better, and better!”

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