I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said. <br /><br />Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't---till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'"<br /><br />"But glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected.<br /><br />"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean---neither more nor less."<br /><br />"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."<br /><br />"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "Which is to be master---that's all."<br /><br />Alive was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They've a temper, some of them---particularly, verbs, they're the proudest---adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs---however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what I say!