Lewis Carroll Quotes
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First, I hate all theological controversy: it is wearing to the temper, and is I believe at all events when viva voce worse than useless.
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You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.
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I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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What I tell you three times is true.
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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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Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
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I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot and it vexes me much. That English is what you speak!
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She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.
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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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No discussion between two persons can be of any use, until each knows clearly what it is that the other asserts.
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You can't be that good; you work for me.
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Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age of sham?
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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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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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Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
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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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For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.
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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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Consider anything, only don’t cry!
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You couldn't have it if you DID want it.