Source: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865); Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille.

Complete Sentence: ‘I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,’ said Alice a little timidly: ‘but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.’
‘Explain all that,’ said the Mock Turtle.
‘No, no! The adventures first,’ said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: ‘explanations take such a dreadful time.’