This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, & yawned once or twice, & shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, & crawled away into the grass, merely remarking, as it went, "One side will make you grow taller, & the other side will make you grow shorter."

Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland