Lewis Carroll Quotes
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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith-the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!
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In some ways, you know, people that don't exist, are much nicer than people that do.
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The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
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If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.
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When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.
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Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool.
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If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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It's too late to correct it: when you've once said a thing, that fixes it, and you must take the consequences.
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Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!
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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.
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I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
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When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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What I tell you three times is true.
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You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.
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Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.
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Anon, to sudden silence won, In fancy they pursue The dream-child moving through the land Of wonders wild and new, In friendly chat with bird or beast - And half believe it true.
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I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.
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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
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Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful soup!
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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.