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Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.
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It's always tea-time.
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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.
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Curiouser and curiouser.
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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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Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.
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If you don't know where you're going any road will do.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.
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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
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Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
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I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!
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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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Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.
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A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
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The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, All on a summer day: The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, And took them quite away!
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One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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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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