Playing with Fonts

Here's one way to do it.

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     ``It's \Large \bf very \normalsize \rm provoking,'' 
     Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking 
     away from Alice as he spoke, ``\small to be 
     called an \em egg \rm -- \normalsize \bf  very\rm!''

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